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specially valuable breeding animals, in which the prospective 

 progeny will pay for large outlay, and when the disease is in its 

 incipient stage, treatment may be warranted. The patient should 

 be thoroughly separated from other animals, kept in the open air, 

 or, in our northern winters, in roomy, well ventilated buildings 

 facing the south, well lighted, kept immaculately clean, frequently 

 whitewashed, and well drained. If there are more than one case 

 every precaution named under the head of prevention must be 

 adopted. Exercise to keep the muscular system in good tone is 

 called for, but never to fatigue. Hence, a sheltered pasturage is 

 ideal. Feeding must be liberal including a ration of grain or 

 seeds, and oil bearing seeds like linseed, rape seed or cotton seed 

 may be specially named. Cod liver oil alone, or etherized is often 

 of great value, with iron and bitters continued for weeks or 

 months. In the case of specially valuable animals one may use a 

 pneumatic cabinet the principle of which is to diminish the air 

 pressure on the body at large by an exhaust, while pure air for 

 breathing, at the ordinary atmospheric pressure, is introduced 

 through a tube furnished with a face piece fitting around closely 

 beneath the eyes. This serves the purpose of attracting (sucking) 

 the blood toward the skin and ether tissues from the lungs, which 

 in their turn are compressed by the air at the atmospheric pressure. 

 Pulmonary congestion is in this way lessened, exudates are 

 absorbed, necrotic tissue removed, sepsis counteracted, haematosis 

 encreased, circulation of both blood and lymph stimulated, diges- 

 tion and nutrition improved, and general health invigorated. 



Active grooming and even the stimulating effect of cold douches 

 may be invoked, the skin being rubbed actively until dry and 

 warm. 



If the circulation is poor, a stimulating steam or hot water bath 

 of fifteen minutes followed by a cold sponge and rubbing till dry 

 may be profitably substituted. In such cases it is well to put a 

 cold sponge on the head while in the bath. 



Medicated inhalation is often valuable especially when the 

 lesions are on, or near the bronchial mucosa. In 1868, Dewar met 

 with most successful results from inhalation of sulphurous acid 

 gas impregnating the atmosphere as strongly as the patient can 

 breath without discomfort. His own groom who had given up 

 work because of advanced phthisis, under treatment of half an 



