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sound, while the breathing is also much quicker and abdominal. 

 The following treatment answers well in both cases : Put the animal 

 into a good loose-box, and apply mustard and water, mixed to the 

 thickness of cream, behind the shoulders for about 16 inches broad 

 (extending from the spine down to the breast-bone), and over this 

 place a piece of newspaper, covering with a sheet and girth. Also 

 give 5-ounce doses of linseed oil and 1 ounce of spirits of nitre twice 

 a day, following this up every eight hours with a dose of J drachm 

 of carbolic acid (B.P.) and J ounce glycerine in milk or water, 

 tempting the appetite with anything that the animal will eat, and 

 giving it good nursing. Nuclein injections hypodermically are 

 highly useful here. 



539. Pleuro-Pneumonia (a Combined Inflammation of the 

 Lungs and Pleurae). — There are two kinds of pleuro-pneumonia — 

 the simple and the contagions. On account of the structural arrange- 

 ments of the lungs of the cow, I have seen post-mortem appearances 

 exhibited in the lungs — resembling those of pleuro-pneumonia (con* 

 tagious), but which I have traced to a needle or wire, passing in its 

 course from the stomach to the heart through these organs, and I 

 have had numbers of cases — single solitary cases — of simple pneu- 

 monia which showed the characteristic marbled post-mortem appear- 

 ances of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, but the lungs were of a more 

 purply hue and more gritty. 



540. Simple Pleuro-Pneumonia (Simple Inflammation of the 

 Lungs and Pleura). — The symptoms are analogous to those of the 

 contagious form (par. 541), but are of a more acute nature, and the 

 cases are solitary — i.e., there is not a general outbreak of the malady. 

 The treatment recommended for the simple form is to give in water 

 every eight hours 10 drops of Fleming's tincture of aconite, and 

 3 drachms of potass nitrate, or 1 ounce sweet spirits of nitre, also 

 when required \ pint of linseed oil every night, and to apply the 

 mustard mixture to the sides as recommended in par. 538. 



541. Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia is a specific inflamma 

 tion of the lungs and pleura of a highly-infectious character, some- 

 what resembling specific erysipelas in the human subject. It may 



