Class II. i. 3. 7. OF SENSATION. i^g 



have accefs to a running ftream of water. As the contagious 

 mucus of the noftrils, both of thefe animals and of horfes, gener- 

 ally drops into the water, they attempt to drink. Bits of raw 

 fleih, if the dog will eat them, are preferred to cooked meat ; and 

 from five to ten drops of tincture of opium may be given with 

 advantage, when fymptoms of debility are evident, according to 

 the fize of the dog every fix hours. It floughs can be feen in 

 the noftrils, they fhould be moiltened twice a day, both in hord- 

 es and dogs, with a folution of fugar of lead, or of alum, by 

 means of a fponge fixed on a bit of whale-bone, or by a fyringe. 

 The lotion may be made by difiblving half an ounce of fugar of 

 lead, or of alum, in a pint of water. 



Ancient philofophers feem to have believed, that the conta- 

 gious miafmata in their warm climates affected horfes and dogs 

 previous to mankind. If thofe contagious particles were fup- 

 pofed to be diffufed amongft the heavy inflammable air, or car- 

 bonated hydrogen, of putrid marfhes, as thefe animals hold their 

 heads down lower to the ground, they may be fuppofed to have 

 received them fooner than men. And though men and quadru- 

 peds might receive a difeafe from the fame fource of marfh-pu- 

 trefaclion, they might not afterwards be able to infect each other, 

 though they might infeft. other animals of the fame genus ; as 

 the new contagious matter generated in their own bodies migrtfc 

 not be precifely fimilar to that received j as happened in the jail- 

 fever at Oxford, where thofe who took the contagion and died, 

 did not infect others. 



On mules and dogs the mfe&ion firft began, 

 And, laft, the vengeful arrows nVd on man. 



Pofe's Homer's Iliad, L 



7. Peripneumonia fuperficialls. The fuperficial or fpurious 

 peripneumony confifts in an inflammation o£ the membrane, 

 which lines the bronchia, and bears the fame analogy to the true 

 peripneumony, as the inflammation of other membranes do to 

 that of the parenchyma, or fubftantial parts of the vifcus, which 

 they furround. It affects elderly people, and frequently occa- 

 sions their death ; and exifts at the end of the true peripneumo- 

 ny, or along with it ; when the lancet has not been ufed fulfi- 

 ciently to cure by reabforbing the inflamed parts, or what is term- 

 ed by refolution. 



M. M. Diluents, mucilage, antimonials, warmifh air conftant- 

 ly changed, venefection once, perhaps twice, if the puife will 

 bear it. Oily volatile draughts. Balfams ? Neutral falls in- 

 creafe the tendency to cough. Bliiters in fucceflion about the 

 cheft. Warm bath. Mild purgatives. Very weak chicken 



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