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in any other, the person who attends the -cattle should be present 

 when the beast is bled. It is impossible, by looking at the patient, 

 and considering the symptoms, to say what quantity of blood ought 

 to be taken away ; but, as a general rule, and especially in inflamma- 

 tion of the lungs, and at the first bleeding, the blood should flow un- 

 til the pulse begins to falter, and -the animal seems inclined to faint. 

 The faltering of the pulse will regulate the quantity of the after- 

 bleedings. Little bleedings of two or three quarts, atthe commence- 

 ment of inflammation of the lungs, ann never be of service ; from six 

 to eight quarts must be taken, or 'even more, regulated by the cir- 

 cumstances that have been mentioned, and the blood should flow in a 

 large full stream. 



Physic will be plainly indicated, and it may be given to cattle in 

 pneumonia, generally with advantage, and always without apprehen- 

 sion. It should, however, be of an* -unirritating kind. The purga- 

 tive effect should be first produced by the Epsom salts, and kept 

 up by sulphur. In an acute inflammation, like that of the lungs, it 

 is necessary that the physic should act speedily, and yet it may ac- 

 cumulate in the rumen. The practitioner hardly dare to unite with 

 it aromatic or stimulating matter in order to rouse this comparatively 

 insensible viscus to action, but he must have speedy recourse to the 

 stomach-pump, in the way already pointed out. 



Blisters Avill here be especially indicated. The inflammation is no 

 longer that of the air-passages deep in the' substance of the lungs, 

 but of their terminations, upon the surface of the lungs, as well as 

 everywhere else. It is difficult to cause a blister to rise on the thick 

 «kin of the ox ; yet the common blister-ointment, thoroughly rubbed 

 in, wall occasionally have effect. The" turpentine tincture of cantha- 

 rides, repeatedly applied, will cause considerable swelling ; or, both 

 of these failing, theie ]-emain, in bad cases, boiling water and the hot 

 iron at command. Setons in the dewlap- should never be omit 

 ted, and sliould be inserted immediately after the first bleeding, 

 and the purging drink given. Four drachms of nitre, two of ex- 

 tract of belladonna, and ,one of tartarized antimony, may afterwards 

 be administered twice a da}^ in a drink. 



Attention to diet is requisite, and warm water and mashes must be 

 regularly given two or three times a day, 



Jlomceopa/hic treatment. — Some doses of aconitinn at short inter- 

 vals, (every hour or every two hours.) generally remov-e the violent 

 fever, after which some doses of hryonia (one morning and night,) 

 establish a perfect cure on the second or third day. It is scarcely 

 necessary to say that the beast must be carefully watched for some 

 time, and that it must be protected fmm damp and cold. Neglected 

 cases of pneumonia have been cured by means of china and rdtrum, 

 after tubercles had probably been formed in the lungs. If the appe- 

 tite is not soon restored, nux vomica and arsenicum should be given. 



