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that would take up at least seven or eight pages of this 

 book if I were writing for the purpose of educating 

 veterinarians in the art of the discovery of pneumonia 

 in all or a small part of a lung. The ears of the animal 

 will usually be cold, but in some cases they are warmer 

 than usual. The appetite usually fails shortly after the 

 begining of the disease ; but some horses will eat con- 

 siderable quantities of food, especially hay, until a few 

 hours before death ; and here lies the danger in these 

 cases, The stockman will not suspect a serious and 

 probably fatal disease to be present while the animal is 

 eating almost a normal amount of food. It cannot be too 

 strongly impressed upon the minds of stockmen that the 

 appetite is often fairly good even in cases of bronchitis 

 and pneumonia. In bronchitis we often have a discharge 

 of mucus from both nostrils, which becomes very pro- 

 fuse as the disease advances. In pneumonia we some- 

 times have a discharge, but here it has a pinkish ap- 

 pearance ; if the disease is severe it may somewhat 

 resemble blood. This is the so-called pneumonia exu- 

 date. There is only very slight pain in either bronchitis 

 or pneumonia ; in fact, almost none at all, except when 

 pleurisy is present with the pneumonia ; then the ani- 

 mal will usually grunt when made to turn around, and 

 will sometimes be heard to do so when standing in the 

 stall. A horse affected with these diseases will rarely 

 lie down, and when a horse that is in the habit of lying 

 down every night, is discovered to have remained 

 standing all night, he should be carefully watched to 

 see if it is repeated on the following night. This does 

 not apply to horses that rarely or never lay down at 

 night. 



Treatment. If discovered in time and remedial 



