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or two, but soon a low form of fever sets in and if 

 the animal is not relieved will die. On applying 

 the ear to the affected side or sides the friction 

 sound first heard will have disappeared and we 

 may be able to detect a light splashing sound and a 

 partial or complete loss of respiratory murmur, 

 which may enable us to detect how high the effu- 

 sion has risen. Very frequently there will be flakes 

 of lymph, and sometimes false membrane will form. 

 I have seen some cases that have died when one 

 could collect handf uls of this false product 



Termination : Simple pleurisy of one side usual- 

 ly terminates favorably if treated properly and in 

 the early stages. When effusion has taken place 

 the chances of cure are less, but may generally be 

 effected in cases where it is not complicated with 

 other diseases. When it occurs in the course of 

 febrile affections or in pigs debilitated from some 

 other cause it almost always increases the danger 

 and often hastens the fatal issue. Pleurisy is often 

 present in cases of hog cholera and no doubt it 

 helps on the fatal termination of that disease. 



Treatment: First — Give from one to two ounces 

 sulphate of magnesia in half a pint of cold water 

 and follow this with fluid extract of veratrum 

 viride one to two drops mixed with fifteen to twenty 

 drops of tincture of hyoscyamus every four hours 

 until the pulse becomes softer; after the physic has 

 operated if the cough is troublesome and the ani- 

 mal seems to be in pain give one grain each of pow- 

 dered opium and ipecacuanha in a pill every four 

 hours; also give from ten to fifteen grains of nitrate 



