72 THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. 



can generally be accomplished by an occasional drink of lobelia 

 and hyssop tea; one ounce of each to a quart of boiling watei. 

 "We use lobelia in the same view that veterinary surgeons use 

 white hellebore, viz., for producing nausea and relaxation. Mr. 

 Percivall, when referring (in his Lectures) to the latter article, 

 says, " To describe the operation of hellebore, perhaps I cannot 

 do better than advert for a moment to the use of ipecacuanha, 

 under similar circumstances, in the human subject. That sub- 

 stance is a nauseant, a vomit, and a sudorific, and is highly ser- 

 viceable in pneumonic affections, from the effects it manifests in 

 lowering vascular action and promoting diaphoresis and expecto- 

 ration. Much in the same way white hellebore appears to 

 operate." And so in like manner does lobelia operate. If given 

 to a healthy cow or horse, it nauseates, and induces a profuse Aoav 

 of saliva, with general relaxation and prostration. In the human 

 subject it is superior to all other emetics. It is an excitant of all 

 the secretions, and its efficacy in pulmonary diseases is beyond 

 dispute. 



The mild, subacute, inflammatory, and chronic pneumonia 

 maybe treated on the general principles here laid down; yet 

 chronic, which may be a continuation of that which was at first 

 inflammatory and dangerous, sometimes requires nothing more in 

 the way of medicine than to lubricate the respiratory passages, 

 which are often left in an irritable state. In such cases, we 

 recommend 



Powdered pleurisy root, 



" elecampane, 



" bloodroot, 



" caraways, 



" ginger, 



a salt ) 



" elm' (°f eaca 2 ounces, 



Linseed meal, ... 1 pound. 

 Mix. Divide the mass into sixteen powders, and give one in the 

 food night and morning. 



DROPSY OF THE CHEST. — (Hydrothorax.) 



This form of the disease is almost always fatal. 

 Case of Pneumonia, terminating in Hydrothorax and Death 

 — The subject, a gray mare, six years old, had, just previous to 



