PLETTBO-PNEUMONIA, PULMONABY MUBBAIN, Ac. 197 



place may be ascertained by pressing the side along 

 between the ribs with the point of the finger, when 

 the animal will flinch and grunt at the diseased place. 

 The pulse becomes quickened and oppressed ; the 

 skin hard, tight, and bound to the ribs; the horns 

 are hotter and the muzzle drier than usual ; the head 

 is lowered and thrust forward, with the nose poked 

 out; the back is raised up sometimes; little or no 

 food is eaten ; the cud is seldom or never chewed ; 

 the milk is arrested ; bowels are bound, and when 

 moved, the dung is in hard dry lumps. 



In the third stage The breathing is much more 

 quickened, very difficult, labored, and even gasping; 

 the breathing is carried on partly through the mouth, 

 partly through the nose ; the breath has a bad smell ; 

 a stringy frothy fluid constantly dribbles from the 

 mouth ; the cow groans loudly and frequently while 

 the grunt is either gone or subdued; the pulse is quick 

 weak, and, in some cases, intermittent or even im- 

 perceptible; the horns, ears, and legs are cold, the 

 skin covered with cold sweat, the head and neck 

 stretched out, and the nose poked into the corner 

 of the manger; the fore-legs are separated from 

 each other, and fixed in one place, unless the cow is 

 restless and uneasy ; sometimes the hind ones are 

 crossed over each other, or the hind fetlock-joints are 

 knuckled forward ; the animal is thin and reduced to 

 a skeleton; the strength of course greatly impaired, 

 so that she can scarcely cough; the urine is very 

 high-colored; toward the last, violent purging comes 



