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bicarbonate of potassium, 3 drams; water, 1 pint. Care should be 

 used in drenching; no reclclessness such as filling the mouth with 

 medicines, then holding the hand tightly over the nostrils and pound- 

 ing on the throat and windiiipe, kicking the horse in the belly or ribs, 

 or other like conduct, should be practiced. If the animal coughs or 

 attempts to cough Avhile the head is up, let the head down immediately. 

 Better to lose the medicine than to cause it to get into the lungs. 



There are many valuable medicines used for tlie different stages 

 and different tj^pes of pneumonia, but in the opinion of the writer it 

 is useless to refer to them here, as this work is intended for the use of 

 those who are not sufficiently acquainted with the disease to recognize 

 its various tyx^es and stages; therefore they would only confuse. If 

 you can administer a ball or capsule, or have any one at hand who 

 is capable of doing it, a dram of sulphate of quinine in a capsule, or 

 made into a ball, with sufficient linseed meal and molasses, given 

 every three hours during the height of the fever, will do good in many 

 cases. The ball of carbonate of ammonia, as advised in the treatment 

 of bronchitis, may be tried if the animal is hard to drench. 



If the horse becomes very much debilitated, stimulants of a more 

 pronounced character are required. The following drench is useful: 

 Rectified spirits, 3 ounces; spirits of nitrous ether, 2 ounces; water, 

 1 pint. This maj^ be reijeated every four or five hours if it seems to 

 benefit. Or 6 ounces of good whisky, diluted with a pint of water, 

 may be given as often, instead of the foregoing. 



There are cases where sedatives are undoubtedly beneficial, but a 

 knowledge both of disease and medicine is required to discriminate in 

 such cases; therefore the only rational course to pursue in a work of 

 this kind is to map out a line of treatment that will do good in all 

 cases and harm in none, and at the same time be within the under- 

 standing of those who have not made a special study of disease. 



During the period of convalescence good nutritive food should be 

 allowed in a moderate qviantity. Tonic medicines should be substi- 

 tuted for those used during the fever. The same medicines advised 

 for the c<yaivalescing period of bronchitis are equally efficient in this 

 case. Likewise, the same general instructions apph'' here. 



Death Tnay occur during the first stage of the disease, owing to the 

 severity of the fever, or it may occur during the period when the lungs 

 are solidified bj^ the exudate of the inflammation filling up the air 

 cells and broncliial tubes, or it may take place later, when the exudate 

 fails to liquefy and undergo absorption, and is then due to suppura- 

 tion, the formation of an abscess, or gangrene or mortification. As a 

 matter of course pneumonia is most often fatal when both lungs are 

 involved in the inflammation. 



In concluding, it ma}^ be well to remind you that if pneumonia is 

 properly treated the great majority of cases will terminate in a com- 

 plete restoration to health. In all cases much will depend on the good 



