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comes on, crepitation or harsh blowing sounds are heard in the 

 chest, and the membrane of the nose assumes a bright pink or 

 dull leaden hue. The ears and limbs are alternately cold and 

 hot, the hair rough, the skin tender and frequently trembling. 



Soon the nose discharges a white, yellowish, or greenish 

 matter, and the animal may recover, or an increasingly heavy 

 breathing, depth and painfulness of cough, and changed oi 

 absent respiratory sounds in the chest, with dullness on percus- 

 sion, show that the lungs are seriously involved. Thus there 

 may be the symptoms of pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis, hydro- 

 thorax, pericarditis, hydropericardium, etc Clots sometimes 

 form in the heart, modifying the heart sounds and proving 

 rapidly fatal. 



In other cases the abdominal organs suffer, and with great 

 torpor, stupor, tension, and tenderness of the abdominal walls 

 there are colicky pains, ardent thirst, coated tongue, yellowness 

 of the membranes of nose and eyes, yellow or reddish urine, 

 costive bowels and dung in pellets thickly coated with mucus. 



Sometimes rheumatic swelling and tenderness take place in 

 the muscles and joints of the limbs, and may even last for 

 months. At others, paralysis or delirium will ensue, or, finally, 

 severe inflammation of the eyes. 



Treatment. — Overcome costiveness by injections of warm 

 water, or by one-third the usual doses of linseed oil or aloes^ 

 Give mild febrifuge diuretics (liquor of acetate of ammonia, 

 spirit of nitrous ether), with anodynes (extract of belladonna), 

 and when fever subsides or great prostratioa comes on, stimu- 

 lants (nitrous ether, aromatic ammonia, carbonate of ammonia), 

 and even tonics (gentian columba, quassia). 



Counter-irritants (ammonia and oil, equal .parts, mustard, etc) 

 may be used from the first to the throat, sides, or abdomen, 

 according to the seat of the inflammatibn. 



Soft mashes, roots, or green food, pure air, without draughts, 

 and warm clothing, are essentials of treatment throughout 



