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DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERT. 



PLAN OF A VAPOR BATS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF LUNO AFFECTIONS. 



Explanation.— a, represents a boiler originally erected for the purpose of supplying the infirmary 

 with hot water; c, is the main pipe issuing from the top of the boiler receiving the steam, and 

 conducting it, when not required for other purposes, into either a flue or the open air at b; c 

 and / are branch pipes from the main one (c), / being that which conducts the steam into a 

 worm (h). winding through a condensing trough (g); e, the branch pipe which conducts the 

 steam (prevented by stop-cock from going in the other direction' into the bath, the place of 

 admission (.nj being on one side, close to the floor at a point intermediate between the horse's 

 fore and hind feet while standing in the bath, with his head outside - m is the bath, being a 

 horse-box, such as is used for embarking horses on board of ship, with the addition of a Iinit'g 

 of flannel, a roofing of hoops and tilting, and curtains over the doors, front and back, to pre- 

 vent the escape of steam. The box, being placed upon wheels, serves, besides being used as a 

 bath, for tho transport of sick or lame horses ; and. having doors at both ends, and a moveable 

 platform fcr the horse to walk in upon, is, in general, entered without any great deal of unwill- 

 ingness. 



Pneumonia (Inflammation op the Lungs). 



InitaLjmation of the lungs, known to veterinarians as pneu- 

 monia, is not apt to be so prevalent among horned creatures as 

 amoug horses, except, however milch cows, when they are located 

 in nlthy, unventilated milking establishments. In such places 

 diseases of the lungs are often fearfully prevalent, raging as an 

 epizootic, as it did a few years ago in the swill-milk establish- 

 ments of New York. It makes sad havoc when prevalent among 

 a large herd that may be confined in a barn or stable of con- 

 tracted proportions. All domestic animals require plenty of 

 room, as well as light and pure air; for it is now pretty ciearly 

 demonstrated that the pleuro-pneumonia, which appeared in 

 Massachusetts, in 1860, on the premises of Mr. Chenery, arose 

 there spontaneously. His barn, or rather the basement, where 

 the cattle lived, was a room fifty feet square and only eight 

 feet in height. The walls on the north, and a portion of the 



