140 The Horse Farrier. 



prove as beneficial as ether. Counter irritants, applied 

 externally in the region of the throat and chest, are gen- 

 erally recommended; the common hartshorn liniment, 

 essence of mustard, or a mixture composed of equal parts 

 of olive oil, tincture of capsicum, and lobelia, are among 

 the most efficient remedies for this purpose. The rectum 

 must be kept empty, by stimulating clysters ; all food to 

 be withheld until the worst symptoms are past, when 

 some thin gruel, sweetened with honey, may be allowed, 

 cold or warm, as the season permits, very good for re- 

 lieving laryngitis, applied by means of sponges to the 

 throat. 



In chronic cases, when the glandular organs around 

 the throat are swollen, a stimulating liniment will be in- 

 dicated, which should be rubbed in, night and morning, 

 the animal to have a nutritious diet, and to be drenched 

 as follows : Balsam of fir, 1 ounce, sweet spirits of 

 nitre, 2 ounces, syrup of garlic, 4 ounces, mix. 



Dose. — One sixth part to be given every night in a 

 pint of thin gruel. 



PNEUMONIA OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



In this disease there are three well marked stages. 



1st. That of congestion. 



2d. When inflammation is fully developed. 



3d. That of suppuration or formation of matter. 



In the 1st stage the vessels are merely engorged with 

 blood and the air-cells partly filled with a sero-mucus 

 bloody effusion. 



In the 2d stage the disease in the lungs has advanced 

 and a plastic extravasation has taken place in the air- 

 cells, and the tissue connecting them are filled with a 

 bloody concrete lymph. 



In the 3d stage the place of the plastic secretion has 

 been supplied by a purulent fluid. 



The disease may affect one lung or both, being much 

 more grave in the latter case. 



