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have access to a running stream of water. As the contagious 

 mucus of the nostrils, both of these animals and of horses, gener- 

 ally drops into the water, they attempt to drink. Bits of raw 

 flesh, if the dog will eat them, are preferred to cooked meat; and 

 from five to ten drops of tincture of opium may be given with ad- 

 vantage, when symptoms of debility are evident, according to the 

 size of the dog, every six hours. If sloughs can be seen in the 

 nostrils, they should be moistened twice a day, both in lorses 

 and dogs, with a solution of sugar of lead, or of alum, by nieans 

 of a sponge fixed on a bit of whale-bone, or by a syringe. The 

 lotion may be made by dissolving half an ounce of sugar of lead, 

 or of alum, in a pint of water. 



Ancient philosophers seem to have believed, that the lonta- 

 gious miasmata in their warm climates affected horses ancj dogs 

 previous to mankind. If those contagious particles wer^ sup- 

 posed to be diffused amongst the heavy inflammable air, of car- 

 bonated hydrogen, or putrid marshes, as these animals holoj their 

 heads down lower to the ground, they may be supposed tcj have 

 received them sooner than men. And though men and qtedru- 

 peds might receive a disease from the same source of marjh-pu- 

 trefaction, they might not afterwards be able to infect each other, 

 though they might infect other animals of the same genus ;|as the 

 new contagious matter generated in their own bodies miaht not 

 be precisely similar to that received; as happened in tfe jail- 

 fever at Oxford, where those who took the contagion and died, 

 did not infect others. 



On mules and dogs the infection first began, 

 And, last, the vengeful arrows fix'd on man. , 



POPE'S Homertlliacl, T, 



7. Peripnewnonia superficial. The superficial or siurious 

 peripneumony consists in an inflammation of the membrane, 

 which lines the bronchia, and bears the same analogy to tjie true 

 peripneumony, as the inflammations of other membrane do to 

 that of the parenchyma, or substantial parts of the viscus, 



they surround. It affects elderly people, and frequentl] 



which 

 occa- 

 sions their death; and exists at the end of the true peripneimony, 

 or along with it; when the lancet has not been used suffjciently 

 to cure by reabsorbing the inflamed parts, or what is terned by 

 resolution. 



M. M. Diluents, mucilage, antimonials, warmish ar con- 

 stantly changed, venesection once, perhaps twice, if th< pulse 

 will bear it. Oily volatile draughts. Balsams? Neutijd salts 

 increase the tendency to cough. Blisters in succession a tout the 

 chest. Warm- bath. Mild purgatives. Very weak thicken 



