58 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



Remedies. — The treatment for inflammation of the lungs 

 must be immediate and decisive. As the disease is rapid, 

 so also must be the means employed. Although its first 

 symptoms may exhibit a mild character, yet we have seen 

 how rapid they become in their after effects. To palliate 

 it therefore would be absurd. Ample bleeding must be 

 resorted to ; but the quantity of blood taken cannot be spe- 

 cified, we must therefore look to its effects. He should be bled 

 until his pulse begins to rise, and afterwards until it flutters, 

 and the horse even faints from exhaustion. During the 

 flow of the blood the pulse should be felt all the while to 

 mark its progress. Five or six hours afterwards the horse 

 should be examined, and if he still exhibits the symptoms 

 of the cfjjiplaint, viz., quick and laborious heaving of the 

 loins, a stiffness in his attitude Avhile standing, great coldness 

 of the feet and redness in the membrane of the nose, 

 bleeding must again be resorted to, and as amply as before, 

 even until it is followed by the same state of exhaustion. 

 Such treatment will generally have the effect of putting a 

 stojD to the disease ; although in obstinate cases even a third 

 repetition may be necessary, but not to the same extent 

 as before, as an exhaustion of the system may follow, and 

 prove fatal to the animal. It is surprising how soon the 

 blood which has thus been taken away will be restored. If 

 after all this the cold symptoms still continue, it may be 

 proper in two or three hours to take from one to two quarts 

 of blood, so as if possible to rouse the action and prevent the 

 inflammation from again returning. 



The state of the disease can be pretty well ascertained 

 from the thickness of the blood and the buffy, orange- 

 coloured appearance of the surface some hours after it has 

 cooled and congealed. 



Should we have so far succeeded in mastering the com- 



