694 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



with the carbolic lotion. (See Index.) If there are any rotten 

 teeth, remove them. 



Another convenient mode of treating this disease is, 



Take Sulphate of Copper, . . . . . 2 drams. 

 Cautharides, powdered, . . . . .5 grains. 

 Or Sulphate of Iron, ..... 1 dram. 



Arsenic, 3 grains. 



Strychnine, ...... 2 grains. 



Mix either of these into one pill with flour, molasses, etc., 

 and give one such pill in the morning and another at night ; or, 



Take lodoform, ....... 2 drams. 



Nitrate of Bismuth, . . . . .1 ounce. 



Powder, and mix thoroughly, and blow the powder in the 

 nose twice a day with a powder-blower, or 



Take lodoform, ....... 1 dram. 



Sulphuric Ether, ..... 1 ounce. 



Mix, and use in the nose with a spray syringe. 

 Pneumonia. Also, Inflammation of the Lungs, Lung Fever, 

 etc. This disease may occur either in an acute or a chronic 

 form, may effect a part or the whole of one or both lungs. It 

 is often connected with pleurisy and other diseases. When it 

 occurs in connection with pleurisy, it is called pleuro-pneumonia. 



CAUSES. Improperly ventilated stables ; sudden changes of 

 temperature ; exposure to cold ; over-driving, etc. It may also 

 occur from a case of neglected catarrh. Breathing impure air 

 or smoke, or taking strong medicines without being well diluted, 

 may cause first bronchitis and then pneumonia. Young animals 

 are most liable to it. 



SYMPTOMS. It usually begins with a chill, after which the 

 body becomes hot ; the ears and legs become hot and then cold ; 

 the mouth hot and sticky, and the breathing slightly affected 

 at first ; the pulse will be quick and may be full ; the animal 

 hangs the head and continues standing; the eyes have a glassy 

 look, and the lining of the nose and eyes is redder than natural; 

 and there will be a peculiar flapping of the nostrils, and a heavy, 

 sighing breathing. A symptom, which often misleads, is cos- 

 tiveness of the bowels, and the dung dropped will be covered 



