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a high fever, in which the temperature may go to 

 106 degrees. The pulse is full, soft and rapid, sixty 

 to eighty beats per minute. The respirations are 

 hurried, but not labored. There is a cough, which, in 

 the early stages, is short, dry and husky; but in the 

 later stages it becomes moist and suppressed, a frothy 

 mucus often being coughed up. The appetite is lost 

 or impaired, and the bowels constipated. In the early 

 stages, the dung is hard and dry, but as the disease 

 progresses, it often becomes coated with a slimy mucus. 

 The urine is scant and high-colored. By applying 

 the ear to the front part of the chest, one can hear a 

 rattling sound, like forcing air through frothy mucus. 

 Just back of the shoulder a whistling sound (sibilus) 

 can be heard as the air rushes through the small 

 bronchial tubes. The expired air is laden with moist- 

 ure, and the mucous membrane of the nostrils is con- 

 gested and red. Horses stand during this disease, 

 while other animals usually lie down. 



Hygienic treatment is best. Supply clean, warm, 

 dry quarters, with plenty of fresh air, but no draughts. 

 Clothe the animal warmly and apply over the chest a 

 blanket wrung out of cold water, with dry blankets 

 over this. The wet blankets should be renewed every 

 hour. During the chill, give stimulants, whiskey in 

 two-ounce doses, sweet spirits of nitre in ounce doses, 

 or aromatic spirits of ammonia in ounce doses; and 

 repeat these doses every hour until the chill is 

 stopped. Then give small doses of aconite, fifteen 

 drops of the tincture alternating with one-half dram 

 of fluid extract of belladonna. Two -dram doses of 



