416 APPENDIX. — PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 



obliged to breathe the vapor. Repeat this fumigation 

 four or five days. If this discharge continues, pass a 

 seton through the dewlap, using with it the root of black 

 hellebore boiled half an hour in vinegar. 



" The following may be made use of instead of the 

 above : — 



1 oz. sulphate of alumina or potassa. 



1 " sulphate of zinc. 



1 " Spanish powders. 



1 " oil of turpentine. 



3 " camphor. 

 Reduce these to powder, dissolve in one quart of strong 

 vinegar, mix in a bottle, and shake it well. Raise 

 the head of the animal, and turn a small spoonful into 

 the nasal passages. The animal will sneeze powerfully, 

 and throw out the thick mucus which obstructs the air 

 passages. Repeat this practice for several days. 



" If the disease resists this treatment, and the animal 

 refuses to eat or ruminate, or if, after having eaten, the 

 belly is swollen, the animal froths at the mouth, lows fre- 

 quently, and is unable to lie down, it is better to kill it 

 at once, and not, while losing time, add to the danger of 

 contagion. 



" Pleuro-pneumonia has not hitherto attacked any but 

 neat cattle ; it has not extended to horses, among which 

 the contagion is not to be apprehended." 



Mr. Winthrop W. Chenery, of Belmont, Mass., who has 

 lost a large number of valuable animals by this malady, 

 wrote to his correspondents in Holland for information 

 in regard to the existence of the disease in the locality 

 from which some of his cattle were obtained, and the 

 modes of treatment recommended by distinguished veter- 

 inary surgeons there, and received the following reply, 

 which he has very kindly placed in my possession : — 



" There was no disease prevailing at the stables where 

 the cows were procured, although a disease is existing 

 throughout the whole country, (Holland,) known as 

 ' phthisis ' — a pulmonary disease. The governments of 

 France and Holland have offered large sums to whoever 

 shall discover a remedy ; yet none has as yet been found. 



