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malady. The treatment recommended for the simple form, is to give 

 in water every eight hours, lo drops of Fleming's tincture of aconite, 

 and three drachms of potass nitrate, also when required, half-a-pint 

 of linseed oil every night, and to apply the mustard mixture to the sides 

 as recommended in par. 534. 



537. Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia is a specific inflammation 

 of the lungs, somewhat resembling, in my opinion, specific erysipelas 

 in the human subject. It may be acute, siib-acufe, or chronic, and part 

 of one, or, perhaps, both lungs may be affected. In some cases, the 

 animal shows no symptoms of illness — feeding, chewing the cud, and 

 milking ; and the great rise of temperature may be the first thing to 

 attract attention to the cHest, where the sounds peculiar to this 

 disease are heard. Primarily, there are crepitating murmurs ; next, a 

 squeaking, jerky friction, or rubbing sound; finally, the lung solidifies, 

 and no sound is to be heard over that area. On striking, or tapping 

 the chest, over this part, there is a dull, solid response. In an acute 

 case, the animal drops off feeding, stops chewing the cud, and giving 

 milk ; stands stiff and thoughtful, with nose poked out, sides dropped 

 in, and flat ; the breathing is fast, and entirely done by the abdominal 

 muscles : there is a short, dry, characteristic cough, and the temper- 

 ature generally ranges from 104° to 106°. Auscultation, or listening 

 to the sounds in the chest, with the history of the case, assists the 

 professional practitioner in arriving at a diagnosis. As the disease has 

 now been stamped out under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 

 no treatment is allowed. Inoculation is, however, carried on in some 

 countries, with great success, and I have myself seen it tried with the 

 best results. 



538. Tuberculosis, Consumption, or Scrofula, is prone to 

 attack all the parts of the body — bones, joints, glands, brain, intestines, 

 and lungs, and, although the muscular tissue is seldom the seat of the 

 disease, in generalized tuberculosis, the glands situated in their midst 

 may be so. The lungs, however, seem to be afflicted with the largest 

 share of its attentions. Tuberculosis attacking the lungs of the cow, 

 may be acute or chrcnic. In the former, I have seen the lungs, and 



