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cases the pulse may run down to thirty. Stimulants 

 should be used at this stage, such as a little brandy and 

 water or whisky and water. A gill or two of liquor to be 

 given as a drench, or what is much better, is, take carbonate 

 of ammonia, from one to two drachms ; powdered ginger 

 root, one to two drachms, made into a ball with honey or 

 molasses and given twice a day. It should be remembered 

 that this treatment alone is intended only for the low stage 

 of the disease. When the pulse seems to rise to fifty or sixty 

 about the fifth or sixth day, the patient should then be 

 treated as for pleurisy, with fever medicine. Under the 

 influence of the latter treatment, the pulse will recede and 

 resume its natural number of beats (forty). In this form 

 of disease it is extremely prostrated at first, the whole sys- 

 tem being inactive. The pulse may run up in time to 

 seventy, or even eighty.* 



The reader may take up veterinary works, and those too 

 by good authority, in which he is told to bleed for pleurisy 

 and lung fever; bleed until the pulse falters. I have only 

 to say that I give you what I know from experience to be 

 safe, reliable treatment, and you are safe in following im- 

 plicity the treatment given. Indeed, for all ordinary cases, 

 a few doses of aconite, to which may be added, if desired, 

 a little belladonna and veratrum in the proportion given, 

 including same proportion of belladonna there is of vera- 

 trum, given promptly, will in almost every instance give 

 relief quickly. 



Dr. Somerville of Buffalo, puts up a preparation for the 

 cure of lung fever, colds and chills, which is specific. It 

 will cure every case of chills or fever. A bottle of which 

 should be kept in every stable. If available at your drug- 

 gist's, get a bottle by all means. It is just the thing, and 

 cheap at any price. 



See also introductory chapter to treatment of diseases 

 before treatment for colic. 



* Note.— In all cases in feeding while the animal is laboring under any of the 

 forms of pneumonia, the animal should be kept moderately warm, have plenty of 

 pure air, cold water in small quantities, a hand full of wet hay, a carrot or two, 

 an apple or a potato or more; anything of an alterative form. Be careAil not to 

 exercise too soon. 



