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a pTO(lis]>osition to pleurisy. It has been noticed that animals oi 

 the sanguine t.emperoraent are more prone to the malady than 

 others of different temperaments. Hence, the only way to prevent 

 pleurisy is to try and keep up a good standard of health in horses, 

 by affording them a chance to have regular exercise, pure air in 

 the stable, and a fair allowance of good wholesome food. Pleurisy 

 In the horse is very apt to end in hydro-thorax, or dro]^sy of the 

 chest; and the case that I am now about to offer will illustratf 

 this, as well as the symptoms and treatment. 



Case of Pleurisy and Dropsy of the Chest. — A few months ago I 

 was requested to visit a gray gelding, the property of a iSIr. Waldo. 

 The animal had been out of health for a week or more, suffering 

 from a slight attack of influenza, but was improving — so thought 

 the person who was in medical attendance ; but the owner thought 

 otherwise, and decided to secure my services. 



Symptoms. — On examination, the following symptoms were 

 found present: Pulse, wiry; respirations, quick, laborious, and 

 accompanied with a slight grunt, indicating pain within the chest. 

 When pressure, ever so slight, was made on the sides of the chest, 

 it elicited very decided symptoms of pain. The animal would 

 occasionally turn its head toward the sides, as if to inform us of 

 the seat of his sufferings. Dropsical swellings were observed un- 

 der the chest and belly, and the hind legs were also drop.?ical, and 

 the vascular surfaces of the mouth and nose were tinged slightly 

 yellow; the feces were scanty, and the urine was high-colored; 

 the appetite was much impaired, but the patient was very thirsty. 

 On the sti-ength of the condition of the animal, and the presenta- 

 tion of the above symptoms, and percussion revealing water in the 

 chest, I informed my employer that the case was one of pleurisy 

 and dropsy of the chest. It is probable that water had l)een accu- 

 mulating in the chest for several days, and that the pleura was 

 Involved at the commencement of the malady. 



Treatment. — Dropsy of the chest is a very formidabV disease 1 : 

 treat, an J theie are but few cases of cure on record; vet, I think 

 if such cases came early into the Lands of educated sufgcons, and 

 they use life-sustaining agents in view of husbanding the jiowert! 

 of the vital forces, more cures will hereafter be recorded. The 

 treatment of tliis case was as follows: I rubbed the s'des of the 

 chest occasionally with a portion of camphor dissolved in olive oi)^ 

 and gave, morning and evening, during a period of seventeen da,'^ft> 



