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sideration " an affair of desperation" and confesses that his own 

 practice has proved unsuccessful. " I have frequently performed 

 tapping, and as frequently failed in any good result. From an 

 old horse I drew off ten gallons of water — seven quarts from the 

 left side, and thirty-three from the right side. He died on the 

 fourth day succeeding the operation, without having been in the 

 least relieved by the evacuation. After death, six gallons more 

 were found within the chest, and one quart within the peri- 

 cardium." 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS AND LINING MEMBRANE 

 OF THE CHEST. — {Pleuro-Pnmmonia.') 



The above terms signify a disease of a compound character — 

 pleurisy and pneumonia combined. The treatment does not differ 

 from that recommended for pleurisy and pneumonia, (which see). 

 The disease, however, runs into a state termed typhoid : this is 

 nothing more nor less than an advanced stage of the same disease ; 

 the diagnostic symptoms of which are, the nasal membranes 

 have a blue tinge, appearing as if they were glazed over with a 

 coating of lead-colored paint ; the breath is very offensive ; the 

 throat is somewhat sore, and the glandular structures around are 

 swollen ; the patient is in a sinking condition, with no appetite ; 

 quick yet feeble pulse ; the urine high-colored and fetid, and the 

 excrement is scanty, voided in round lumps. The body is trem- 

 ulous, and the coat looks as if the horse had been dead for a week 

 or more. In cases of this character, our remedies must be of a 

 kind calculated to support the living powers and to arrest decom- 

 position, for which we have never found any thing to equal the 

 following : — 



Pale brandy h a pint, 



Tincture of capsicum, 1 ounce, 



Table salt, 2 ounces, 



Pyroligneous acid, 1 ounce. 



Shake the mixture until the salt is dissolved ; then give a wine 

 glass every hour, as a drench, in a small portion of oatmeal gruel. 

 Salt is a very excellent antiseptic ; a portion should now and then 

 be laid on the tongue, or the subject may have an occasional 

 drench of salt and water. 



