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712. — The inflammation is confined to the membrane that 

 covers the lungs. The attitude and determined standing are the 

 same as in inflammation of the lungs, but here the blood is still 

 passing freely through the lungs, so that the pulse is hard, 

 distinct, and full. There is the same unwillingness to move, or to 

 draw a full breath, as every expansion of the lungs presses on 

 the inflamed and sensitive membrane. 



The horse will grunt with pain when tapped on the outside 

 of the lungs, and flinch from pressure on the side. He is less 

 stupified, and more sensitive, than when the badly oxyginated 

 blood of pneumonia is passing through the brain. The internal 

 covering of the nostrils is not red or purple in pleurisy. This 

 disease is more curable than pneumonia, and the horse may be 

 perfectly restored by packs and bandages, applied early, as in 

 inflammation of the lungs. 



713. — With bleeding and blistering it frequently terminates 

 in dropsy of the chest. This is easily let out with the common 

 trocar, used for dropsy in the human subject, but even Youatt 

 admits that it has " very seldom saved, or much prolonged the 

 life of the animal." The trocar is entered between the eighth and 

 ninth ribs, and close to the cartilages. 



BRONCHITIS. 



714. — What we have said under the general remarks on the 

 bronchial tubes, is really all that we can say about bronchitis, or 

 any of the minor diseases of the respiratory organs. We may 

 support this opinion by quoting the exact words of Dr. Dadd, 

 when writing of this disease : " The bowels are to be kept loose, 

 not by purgatives, for their action on the digestive surfaces is 

 sure to make matters worse, the patient must be kept on a sloppy 

 kind of diet, well seasoned with common salt. Fine feed, bran 

 scalded, and placed before the animal while warm, answers two 

 purposes, viz., that of relaxing the engorged surfaces of the nose 

 and throat from inhaling the wai'ui vapour, and also has a 

 relaxing etfect on the bowels, which are apt to become torpid 

 sometimes from no other cause than want of exercise. Jf the 

 patient be carried through the various stages of bnjiichial 



