106 INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



CHAP. XXII. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



Inflammation of the lungs, either on account 

 of its frequent occurrence, or the importance of 

 the parts affected, or as being one of the most 

 fatal complaints to which this noble animal is 

 subject to, is a disease of very great moment, and 

 deserving our most particular attention. The de- 

 licate texture of the lungs, and their entire action, 

 so necessary for the continuance and proper func- 

 tions of life, teach us, that when this part becomes 

 affected with inflammation, the most active means 

 must be immediately employed to remove it, and 

 one of the most efficacious is bleeding ; which, on 

 some occasions, is persevered in to an extent 

 scarcely credible to those who have not had prac- 

 tical experience in such cases. 



Some medical authors have made a distinction 

 between the inflammation which affects the sub- 

 stance of the lungs, and that affecting the mem- 

 brane which surrounds the substance of the lungs ; 

 but such distinctions, I believe, very rarely, or 

 perliaps never, exist in the horse : and if they did, 



