CONTAGIOUS PNEUMONIA. 20I 



serum at least 25 to 60 fluid drachms should be injected daily during 

 the periods of onset and hepatisation. 



Complications must at once receive proper attention. If signs of 

 suppuration or pulmonary gangrene appear antiseptics are indicated. 

 Creolin or carbolic enemata and hypodermic or intra-venous injections 

 of carbolic or iodine solutions should be given. I need not repeat what 

 I have already said on this subject in speaking of complications of 

 sporadic pneumonia. 



The transmissibility of the disease by the various methods of con- 

 tagion necessitates patients being isolated in a stable entirely apart 

 from that occupied by healthy animals, while both localities should be 

 thoroughly cleansed and disinfected, and a separate attendant provided 

 for the diseased. 



When contagious pneumonia appears in large stables, the affected 

 animals should at once be placed as far as possible from the healthy. 

 Even if immediately removed from the common stable to a neighbouring 

 infirmary, isolation may be insufficient and illusory so far as checking 

 the spread of disease. The patients should, if possible, be sent to a 

 distant stable or to the country, for it seems clearly established that 

 change of surroundings almost always has a favourable influence, pro- 

 vided the animals can be removed at the outset and without fatigue. 



