286 The Diseases of Animals 



and well -ventilated stall where there is plenty of sun- 

 light. The food should be nourishing and easily 

 digested, as sweet milk alone, or with raw eggs beaten 

 in, gruels, oats steamed or dry, apples, etc. Cold 

 compresses, made by folding blankets, wringing them 

 out of cold water, should be placed firmly against the 

 lungs, and covered with dry blankets. These should 

 be continued several hours, and changed frequently. 

 When they are removed, the part should be rubbed 

 dry, and a stimulating liniment or mustard plaster 

 rubbed on. The mustard is mixed with tepid water 

 to a thin paste and rubbed into the hair over the 

 lungs. When the plaster has acted sufficiently it should 

 be carefully removed with a curry-comb. 



In giving medicine, great care must be exercised 

 not to excite or to choke the animal, because more 

 harm than good results from harsh treatment. Do not 

 drench a horse suffering from pneumonia unless it be 

 really necessary. In the early stages, during the chill, 

 stimulants may be given, whiskey in two-ounce doses, 

 or an ounce of spirits of nitrous ether. These may be 

 repeated in an hour. After the chill is over, the fever 

 may be treated by giving small doses, fifteen drops, of 

 the tincture of aconite, alternating with thirty drops 

 of fluid extract of belladonna, every hour. A heaping 

 teaspoonful of saltpeter (nitrate of potash) may be 

 given in the drinking water twice daily. As soon as 

 the fever begins to subside, the other medicines may 

 be stopped and one -half dram of iodide of potash 

 be given twice daily for two or three days. 



In the early stages of the disease enemas (injec- 



