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Sucli are the long aud precise recommendations which Delafond gave, 

 and which may be vie\ved, in the main, as measures trom first to hist to 

 be scrupulously avoided. Delafond's belief in the treatment he recom- 

 mends as benefiting sick animals, is but one of innumerable instances of 

 men being misled by nature's own recuperative powders. 



Sanberg, in his prize essay published in 1840, devoted a chapter to 

 the therapeutics of pleuro-pneumonia, but he is not sparing in words of 

 caution, and in impressing on the minds of agriculturists that there is no 

 specific against the disease.* He indorses Delafond's practice of blood- 

 letting, and says that if this is resorted to at the right time the animal 

 improves at once. If the patient is young, robust, in good condition; if 

 the mucous membranes are red, the pulse small, hard, and frequent, 

 breathing short and quick, heart-beats scarcely to be felt, then from ten 

 to fifteen or twenty pounds of blood must be abstracted. It is only by 

 this means, says Sanberg, that the abundant exudation of plastic lymph 

 in the lungs, as well as other evil results can be averted. If no improve- 

 ment is observed within eighteen or twenty-four hours, a second and even 

 larger blood-letting must be performed. After the fifth day of an attack 

 of pleuro-pneumonia Sanberg never bled, and whenever he did so, he ob- 

 served great prostration and even death. It is evident, he says, that 

 whereas an early bleeding may prevent the exudation, should this have 

 taken place, the loss of blood may undermine the vital powers so as to 

 prevent the possibility of recovery. 



Sanberg is one of the strongest advocates of derivatives. He recom- 

 mends a seton on the dewlap, or one on either side of the chest. He 

 also advises a blister spread over a surface deprived of hair to the extent 

 of a man's hand, behind each shoulder blade. The vesicant he uses is a 

 compound of potassio tartrate of antimony, powdered cantharides, and 

 enphorbium, of each three quentchen, lard four loth, and one loth of oil 

 of turpentine. He also suggests the application of the red-hot iron to 

 the sides of the chest. In slight cases rowels dressed with black helle- 

 bore suffice. The quicker and more active the results of these applica- 

 tions, the more favorable is their operation. 



The internal remedies recommended by Sauberg, consist mainly in 

 tartar emetic, which, he says, is attended with the best results. He 

 gives it in the morning in one or two drachm doses, with two or three ounces 

 of sulphate of soda, an ounce of nitrate of potash, and a half an ounce 



*At page 131 of Sauberj^'s work, akeady quotctl, the author says: " Wir haheii kein 

 Arcanum gegeu die Luugeuseuclic dcs lliudviehes und Avenh'U aueh kt.'ir.s tiudcii; 

 wenn man nur beriicksichtigt wie die Krankheit bei dcu eiiizclncu Tliieren so verschie- 

 den ist, und die Mittel, die bei eiiiem Kranken niit Xut/.cn angi-wandt wuvib'ii, bei deni 

 anderen, wcun nicht Naehtheile, docli nicht gleich giliistige Erfolge zu Wcgc; l>i;i( litcii, 

 80 wird man sich wohl bescheiden. Wo der Landmann die Beliaudhiug <hr Krank<ii 

 nicht einem Thierarzt auvertrauen kann oder will, sollte er nur nach allgciiieiniii ( iriiud- 

 siitzcn verfahren, cine zweckmilssige DiJit anorduen, und nicht sein Ilcil in kostbaren 

 Mittelii sucben, der V(u-breitung der 8(-ucbe nioglicbst vorbauen, und wn Ilcilung der 

 Erkrankteu nicht moglich ist, das Schlachten vorziehen." 



