BO THE DISEASES OF THE HOUSE. 



vary according to circumstances. Usually it reaches its 

 hight in a few days, and gets better or worse in a few 

 days. (Percivall.) 



Robertson and Williams describe congestion as a distinct 

 and sometimes independent disease. 



Symptoms of Congestive Pneumonia. — Sudden or 

 gradual. When sudden — the result of overexertion — the 

 horse is all over in a tremor ; cold sweat ; no pulse ; legs 

 deathly cold ; the frightfully wild look of the eyes — pupils 

 dilated — and the boring of the head and stupidity of the 

 horse, clearly indicate delirium. When gradual, the horse 

 is at first dull, listless, heavy-headed, and off its appetite. 

 Respiration gradually becomes more disturbed and oppres- 

 sive, partaking more of labor than of pain ; pulse full 

 and quick, but so feeble perhaps as to be hardly percep- 

 tible ; respiratory murmur lost ; legs and ears deathly 

 cold ; cold sweats ; gradually sinks, and dies in convul- 

 sions and delirium. 



Remedy. — Immediate bleeding — 4 to 6 quarts. 



Symptoms of Inflammatory Pneumonia. — There are 

 three stages; the first may be either absent or unnoticed. 

 First stage : Staring coat ; legs cold, followed perhaps by 

 rigor; head hangs; no appetite; has had a short, dry 

 cough for several days, which comes on after exercise or 

 drinking ; dull, dejected, laggard. Temperature 103, 104, 

 or even 106. Now come fever, quick pulse, hot mouth, 

 injected membranes of nose and eyes. 



Second stage : Breathing disturbed ; nostrils open and 

 shut; flanks work laboriously up and down; breathing 

 indicates oppression rather than pain or rapidity. In other 

 cases the flanks hardly move at all. The nostrils are an 

 important guide, as there is often a sparing, yellow, slimy 

 discharge from one or both ; pulse, at first, quick and 

 usually distinct, but, as the disease progresses, is very apt, 

 from fullness and oppression, to become indistinct; ears 

 and legs colder than ever; nasal membrane moist and 



