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profess to be acquainted. Four eggs at a time may be given, 

 and two doses a day should be allowed for two or tbree days in 

 succession. Prepare the eggs as follows : — first break them 

 into an empty vessel and beat them thoroughly together, then 

 add to the mass a quarter of an ounce of common salt, and 

 administer the whole to the patient with a small horn. Allow 

 the animal cold water to drink, or if preferred, milk and water. 



Give the first dose of eggs in the morning, the second in the 

 evening ; and in the middle of the day (for a few days in succes- 

 sion), half-a-pint of port wine, mixed with a like quantity of 

 cold water. 



It is better to give the eggs and the wine at separate 

 periods ; if mixed together, the wine will coagulate them, and 

 the stomach, in all probability, will be unduly excited in con- 

 sequence. As the power of the digestive organs improve, boiled 

 barley, or a little malt, or speared corn, or if in season, 

 carrots may be allowed. See Section YI., page 108. 



PNEUMONIA. 



INrLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



It is a well known fact, especially to veterinary surgeons 

 of long practical experience, that equine diseases during the 

 last fifteen or twenty years have changed considerably in their 

 general characters. From whatever causes the changes in 

 question have arisen is a matter which is irrelevant to this 

 work ; the fact, however, I believe to be a veritable one ; and 

 in no other disease is it, perhaps, more evident than in Pneu- 

 monia. 



Formerly this disease existed, for the most part, in associa- 

 tion with what medical writers term a sthenic state of the 

 organism, that is : — the powers of life were more vigorous when 

 the animal was affected with the disease than what we find them 



