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have accefs to a running flream of water. As the contagious 

 mucus of the noftrils, both of thefe animals and of horfes, gener- 

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

 flefh, 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 

 advantage, when fymptoms of debility are evident, according ta 

 the fize of the dog every fix hours. If Houghs can be feen in 

 the noftrils, they fhould be moiilened twice a day, both in horf- 

 es and dogs, with a folution of fugar of lead, or of alum, by 

 means of a fponge fixed on a bit of whale-bone, or by a fyringc. 

 The lotion may be made by diffolving half an ounce of fugar of 

 lead, or of alum, in a pint of water. 



Ancient philofophers feem to have believed, that the conta- 

 gious miafmata in their warm climates affected horfes and dogs 

 previous to mankind. If thofe contagious particles were fup- 

 pofed to be diffufed amongft the heavy inflammable air, or car- 

 bonated hydrogen, of putrid marmes, as thefe animals hold their 

 heads down lower to the ground, they may be fuppofed to have 

 received them fooner than men. And though men and quadru- 

 peds might receive a difeafe from the fame fource of marlh-pu- 

 trefa&ion, they might not afterwards be able to infecl: each other, 

 though they might infecl: other animals of the fame genus -, as 

 the new contagious matter generated in their own bodies might 

 not be precifely fimilar to that received ; as happened in the jail- 

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

 did not infecl others. 



On mules and dogs the infection firft began, 

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



Pore's Homer's Iliad, I. 



7. Peripneumcnia fuperfidalis . The fuperficial or fpurious 

 peripneumony confifts in an inflammation of the membrane, 

 which lines the bronchia, and bears the fame analogy to the true 

 peripneumony, as the inflammation of other membranes do to 

 that of the parenchyma, or fubftantial parts of the vifcus, which 

 they furround. It affecls elderly people, and frequently occa- 

 fions their death ; and exifts at the end of the true peripneumo- 

 ny, or along with it; when the lancet has not becji uied fulfi- 

 ciently to cure by reabforbing the inflamed parts, or what is term, 

 ed by refolution. 



M. M. Diluents, mucilage, antimonials, warmifh air conftant- 

 ly changed, venefeclion once, perhaps twice, if the pulfe will 

 bear it. Oily volatile draughts. Balfams ? Neutral falts in- 

 creafe the tendency to cough. Blifters in fucceflion about the 

 cheil. Warm b*ith. Mild purgatives. Very weak chicken 



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