IfO INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



On the contrary, should the feverish symptoms 

 run high ; breathing very difficult, and the horse 

 appears much troubled and almost exhausted ; 

 rattling in the throat, and other bad symptoms are 

 present : all hopes of recovery may be given up. 

 When this disease proves fatal from its obstinacy, 

 from being neglected, or injudiciously treated, we 

 find, on examining the contents of the chest, the 

 hmgs inflamed, gangrenous or mortified, a watery 

 fluid in the lungs and branches of the windpipe, or 

 in the cavity of the chest : when the watery fluid is 

 effiised in the branches of the windpipe, the horse 

 makes a rattling noise when he breathes, which is 

 a very unfavourable symptom. 



The importance of the parts affected requires 

 that the remedies should be employed as early and 

 vigorously as possible ; and the remedy chiefly to 

 be depended upon is bleeding ; and the blood should 

 be taken from a large orifice of the vein, in this dis- 

 ease, as well as in all other internal inflammations : 

 when the pulse rises after each bleeding, it is a 

 sure mark of its utility. In the first place, as soon 

 as eversymptoms of inflammation of the lungs are 

 detected, take from four to six quarts of blood 

 from the horse, according to the violence of the 

 symptoms, his age, condition, and constitution, 

 and repeat it again in six or eight hours after, if 



