36 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



When the lung disease commences by an active inflammation of the bronchial tubes, 

 the jugular vein must be freely opened and six to ten pounds of blood abstracted ; other 

 emissions, from four to eight pounds each, must be repeated daily for two or three days. 

 If the inflammation continues and spreads to the lung tissue, the dry rubbing, emollient 

 fumigations, and injections of marshmallow or bran decoctions, containing three ounces of 

 sulphate of soda, must be persisted in. This treatment must be continued four or five days ; 

 but if the cough continues, a seton must be inserted in the dewlap, and the seton medicated 

 with the vinegar infusion of the white or black hellebore. When the inflammation sub 

 sides, the sternutatory vinegar prescribed. by Mathieu renders good service. It is com 

 pounded as follows : Alum, sulphate of zinc, Spanish pepper, turpentine, one ounce each ; 

 camphor, two drachms, strong Burgundy vinegar, one pint. The solid substances are to 

 be powdered and mixed with the vinegar and turpentine. They are to be macerated for 

 eight hours, placed in a well corked bottle, and well shaken before being given to the ani 

 mal. Three times a day, and when the animal is fasting, a small teaspoonful of vinegar is 

 poured into one or the other of the nostrils. The animals that have once had this opera 

 tion performed can with difficulty be induced to submit to it again. Immediately after 

 the administration, big tears drop from the eyes, and violent sneezing tends to discharge 

 mucosities and the false membranes which obstruct the bronchial tubes and nasal cavities. 

 Should the bronchitis terminate in inflammation of the pulmonary tissue, and this pass 

 rapidly into a state of hepatization, further measures must be resorted to. 



When pleuropneurnonia is simple or complicated by pleurisy or bronchitis, and termi 

 nates in gangrene, the case may be regarded as irremediable. The same is true if there is 

 an abundant effusion in the pleura. The animal soon dies .asphyxiated. 



The symptoms of a severe and desperate case are suspension of feeding and rumina 

 tion, tympanitis, or distension of the paunch by gas immediately after feeding, pulse from 

 sixty to seventy and small, tenderness on pressure of the sides of the chest, absence of re 

 spiratory murmur and friction sound, short and moaning expiration, violent heart-beats, 

 driveling at the mouth, and the obstinate maintenance of the standing posture. It is 

 difficult, with such symptoms, for the animal to recover, but cases of slow restoration to 

 health have occurred. 



At this stage the animal is to be bled daily to the extent of two to four pounds for two 

 or three days. The emetic drinks must not be given, but the sulphate of soda should be 

 persevered with. The injections, fumigations, and dry rubbings must be followed up ; 

 a seton and one or two rowels on the sides of the chest are to be inserted. A little easily- 

 digested food is to be given the animal, and about an ounce of salt daily. If the mucous 

 membrane remains pale and the animal feeble, drinks containing vegetable tonics, such as 

 gentian, &c., must be used. Dieterichs recommends tar-water, to which two drachms of 

 essence of turpentine are added, and which is used for fifteen or twenty days. When an 

 animal is convalescent it may be turned out for an hour or two during fine weather. A 

 relapse is to be treated by a slight bleeding, low diet, frictions, and sulphate of soda. 



Such are the long and precise recommendations which Delafond gave, and which may 

 be viewed, in the main, as measures from first to last to be scrupulously avoided. Dela- 

 fond s belief in the treatment he recommends as benefiting sick animals is but one of 

 innumerable instances of men being misled by nature s own recuperative powers. 



Sauberg, in his prize essay published in 1846, devoted a chapter to the therapeutics 



