88 THE DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



These symptoms usually follow epizootic catarrh, sore 

 throat, or bronchitis. 



Remedy. — Hygienic treatment, as in pneumonia; bleed- 

 ing in acute attacks in vigorous horses and cattle. Emetic 

 and antimonials in animals that vomit. A few doses of 

 aconite tincture or calomel and opium for fever. Salines 

 and antipyretics, as in bronchitis and pneumonia. Pot- 

 assium iodide and colchicum to promote absorption of in- 

 flammatory exudate. Ferric chloride tincture for debility 

 and lack of blood. Digitalis and nux vomica aid removal 

 of fluid. Rugs wrung out of hot water to sides, followed 

 by in-rubbing of mustard, washed off in twenty minutes. 

 Moderate counter-irritation with ammonia and soap lini- 

 ments. Pain reduced by opium or by morphine hypoder- 

 mically. Tapping if necessary. (See 'hydrothorax.') 



For doses, see pages 13 to 29. For a list of ' antipy- 

 retics/ see page 31. 



PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 



For description, symptoms, and treatment of this dis- 

 ease, see articles ' Pneumonia ' and ' Pleurisy/ 



HYDROTHORAX (Water in the Chest), 



Is a very common termination of pneumonia with pleu- 

 risy. It may also follow compound bronchitis, or it may 

 occur independently, the pleura furnishing the water. In 

 some cases water in the belly and head coexist, accom- 

 panied by swelled legs, sheath, belly, &e. 



The disease is dangerous, but it is sometimes curable. 

 Tapping the chest with a trocar is sometimes successful. 

 When water does not flow from one side, try the other. 

 Some puncture between the fifth and sixth ribs, some the 

 eighth and ninth, choosing the most dependent parts and 

 the least likely to cause injury. Make an incision through 

 the skin, and then introduce the trocar, with a rotating 

 motion, obliquely and upward as far as it will go, or till 



