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chest, sometimes causing adhesions. The favourable ter- 

 mination of pleurisy is by what is called resolution. 



Causes. — Changes in the atmosphere. Exposure to 

 cold. Broken ribs or wounds. 



Treatment. — Treat the horse as for inflammation of 

 the lungs, by pure air ; cold water and aconite followed 

 on the second day by five grains of powdered Spanish 

 fly in gruel, once in the twenty-four hours. To remove 

 the fluids from the body, give after the active stage of the 

 disease has passed, good feeding and generous diet. 



(3.) Abscess, — As elsewhere stated, abscess is the termi- 

 nation of inflammation of the lungs. Pus is a common 

 result of inflammatory action, and when in the lungs is 

 called vomicae^ causing in some cases consumption, and 

 where absorption of the pus has taken place, glanders is 

 the result. 



The abscess frequently breaks into the bronchial tubes 

 and then pus escapes into the larynx and nares of the 

 nose; hence the persistent discharge which is so charac- 

 teristic of glanders. 



Treatment. — The same as for glanders, generous diet, 

 tonics and stimulants, with soda sulphite and the 

 Spanish fly. (See Glanders.) 



(4.) Effusion of Serum. — Hydrothorax is one of the 

 ways in which pleurisy terminates, and when this efi*usion 

 is extensive, not much hope of recovery may be expect- 

 ed. Cures, however, have been made by drawing ofi" the 

 fluid by means of a trocar piercing through between the 

 ribs into the chest. 



(5.) Adhesions, — The surface of the lungs become 

 attached to the sides of the chest, by fibrous bands of great 

 strength, another common result of pleurisy. Nothing 



