PLETJBO-PNETTMONIA, PULMONARY MTJEEAJN, &c. 193 



of the SPECIFIC, E E, may be given late in the night 

 and be permitted to act undisturbed until the morn- 

 ing ; then go on as before. - 



For food and stabling, consult the article on 

 Pleurisy, page 191. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia, Pulmonary 

 Murrain, Lung Disease, 



This disease is not at this time a frequent one in 

 the United States, at least, in its more violent or 

 epidemic form. But in Europe and the British 

 Isles, it has been known for many years, and has at 

 times raged there as well as here as a most destruct- 

 ive and fatal epizootic, sweeping off a large portion 

 of the stock on a farm, destroying almost every an- 

 imal attacked. Old school treatment has met it and 

 tried its resources upon it with much the same re- 

 sults as it has met the cholera or similar new dis. 

 eases ; and after having assiduously purged, violently 

 blistered and setoned its patients, and tried all its 

 arts upon them, has only seen the victims die a 

 little quicker under this treatment than without any 

 at all. So much so, that the belief obtains among 

 very many cow keepers that the disease is utterly 

 incurable. 



Within the past few years it has made its appear- 

 ance in various sections of this country, said to have 

 been imported from Holland, and has occasionally 

 made sad ravages among the best imported stock of 

 the vicinity. Within a few short months it extended 



