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extracted from the lungs of an animal affected with this disease is frequently resorted to in 

 Europe, and in this country to a certain extent, but is in many respects unsatisfactory. Dr. 

 Law recommends that stables and buildings where animals with this disease have been kept 

 be cleaned and fumigated as follows: 



&quot; Remove all litter, manure, feed, and fodder, from the stables; scrape the walls and 

 floor; wash them if necessary; remove all rotten wood. For buildings take chloride of lime 

 one-half lb., crude carbolic acid four oz., and water one gallon; add freshly-burned quick 

 lime till thick enough to make a good whitewash; whitewash with this the whole roof, walls, 

 floors, posts, mangers, drains, and other fixtures in the cow stables. &quot;Wash so as to thor 

 oughly cleanse all pails, buckets, stools, forks, shovels, brooms, and other movable articles 

 used in the buildings; then wet them all over with a solution of carbolic acid one-half lb., 

 water one gallon. When the empty building has been cleansed and disinfected as above, 

 close the doors and windows, place in the center of the building a metallic dish holding one 

 lb. flowers of sulphur; set fire to this and let the cow shed stand closed and filled with the 

 fumes for at least two hours. The above should suffice for a close stable capable of holding 

 twelve cows. For larger or very open buildings more will be required. 



The manure from a stable where sick cattle have been kept must be turned over and 

 mixed with quicklime, two bushels to every load; then hauled by horses to fields to which 

 no cattle have access, and at once plowed under by horses. The pits, where the manure has 

 been, must be cleansed and washed with the disinfectant fluid as for buildings. The surviving 

 herd should be shut up in a close building for half an hour once or twice a day, and made 

 to breathe the fumes of burning sulphur. Close doors and windows, place a piece of paper 

 on a clean shovel, lay a few pinches of flowers of sulphur upon it, and set it on fire, adding 

 more sulphur, pinch by pinch, as long as the cattle can stand it without coughing. Continue 

 for a month. 



Give two drachms powdered copperas, green vitriol, daily to each cow in meal or grains; 

 or divide one pound copperas into fifty powders, and give one daily to each adult animal. 

 Do not use for the surviving cattle any feed, fodder, or litter that has been in the same 

 stable with the sick. They may safely be used for horses and sheep. In certain cases further 

 measures are needed, as removal of the flooring and soil beneath, or even the burning of the 

 entire structure. Drains must also be cleansed.&quot; 



Pneumonia. This is an inflammation of the lungs, and generally results from a 

 severe cold, or is developed from bronchitis or inflammation of the larynx, the inflammation 

 extending down into the lungs. It is more common among cattle and horses than any other 

 of the domestic animals, frequently involving but one lung, and sometimes both. It is 

 always accompanied with considerable fever, quick pulse, and rapid breathing. Sometimes 

 the ears, roots of horns, and legs will be cold. 



There are three stages of the disease, viz.: congestion or inflammation, -the first stage; 

 hepatization (the lung becoming solid), or second stage; and suppuration, or third stage. On 

 a post mortem examination the diseased lung will frequently be found solid like liver. 



Put the animal in a warm, well- ventilated stable, and if there be much fever, envelop 

 the body in blankets wrung out in hot water, over which a rubber or dry blanket should be 

 placed, to induce perspiration. It is also a good plan to put some hot bran mash in the bot 

 tom of a common nose basket, and allow the steam from it to be inhaled, or to cover the 

 head with a blanket, and place a kettle containing something hot that will emit steam under 

 neath. After keeping up a perspiration for about half an hour, remove the blankets, rub off 

 dry with wisps of hay or straw, and cover for a time with a dry blanket to prevent a too sud 

 den change of the temperature of the body. Great care should be used to prevent taking 

 cold by a draft or other means. For further treatment, adopt that recommended for bron 

 chitis, previously given. 



