14 CATTLE DOCTOR. 



sometimes run on to inflammation of the lungs, or the 

 beast may be attacked with this disease without any of 

 the previous symptoms' of catarrh. This is a very 

 serious complaint, and requires the most prompt and de- 

 cisive treatment. 



The symptoms are dulness, shivering, and cough that 

 is particularly sore; the ears, roots of the hoi ns, and 

 legs sometimes cold, but not invariably so, as the quan- 

 tity of cellular membr-ane about the legs is often suffi- 

 cient to keep them warm in spite of the nature of the 

 complaint ; the breath and mouth are hot ; the mouth 

 is generally open, and there is a ropy discharge from 

 it; the beast will often lie down, and can scarcely be 

 induced to move ; the flanks heave very laboriously, 

 and the head is protruded, showing the great difficulty 

 of breathing. The pulse is not always much increased 

 in number, but is oppressed, and can sometimes scarcely 

 be felt. 



Inflammation of the lungs is caused by the perspira- 

 tion being obstructed from sudden and great changes of 

 the weather, especially when accompanied with wet. 

 Cattle that are driven long distances, and then exposed 

 to the cold and damp of the night, are particularly liable 

 to it. 



Sometimes the membrane covering the lungs and lin- 

 ing the chsst is the part principally attacked ; the dis- 

 ease is then termed pleurisy, and is in this form often 

 complicated with rheumatism, but is more usual for the 

 substance of the lungs to be aflfected in common with 

 their envelopments. 



Copious bleeding is the remedy most to be depended 

 on for subduing the inflammation, and should be had 

 recourse to as soon as the disease is discovered. The 

 beast shpuld be put into a cool cow-house w^ell littered^ 

 and immediately bled If the difficulty of breathing 

 and other symptoms are not much relieved in six or 

 eight hours after the first bleeding, it should be repeated. 

 A third or fourth bleeding may in bad cases be re- 

 quisite. As a general rule, and especially in inflamma- 

 tion of the lungs, and at the first bleeding, the blood 



