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cult breathing, and the animal suffers from a feelr 

 ing of suffocation. Another danger arises from 

 the small tubes becoming filled with mucus inter- 

 fering with the due aeration of the blood. This 

 blood, passing through the vessels of the brain, has 

 a very depressing effect on the system and some- 

 times causes sudden death, or death may be pre- 

 ceded by coma or delirium. In very distressing 

 cases there will often be a little blood mixed with 

 the mucus. This is a much more dangerous dis- 

 ease in animals, especially the very young ones, as 

 they seem to be unable to throw out the mucus. 



Treatment of Bronchitis : In the early stages of 

 the disease give one ounce of epsom salts to clean 

 out the stomach and bowels and also to act as a re- 

 vulsent; follow this by taking one pint of linseed 

 tea with two drams of antimonial wine in it; give 

 this in divided doses during the day. Other demul- 

 cents such as gum arable in proportion of one ounce 

 to the pint of water or effusion of slippery elm 

 would be useful. If there is much cough give from 

 one to two grains of opium in a little of the above 

 emulsion; if there is high fever give three or four 

 drops of tincture of aconite and from ten to fifteen 

 grains of nitrate of potassium. In severe cases if 

 the hog is strong a full dose of calomel, eight to ten 

 grains, given at once, is very useful. We cannot 

 with any satisfaction to ourselves or benefit to the 

 pig use hot water to the surface of the body; but 1 

 think some benefit may be derived by rubbing the 

 fudes w^ell with compound soap liniment or mus- 

 tard several time8» After the acute stage is passed 



