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the chest, and sometimes a gurgling noise. Strong respiratory murmur in the 

 superior portion of the lung, very often of one side only. 



TERMINATES either by cure or by effusion and infiltration of the whole of the 

 cellular membrane of the chest and belly, and sometimes of the scrotum and thighs : 

 at last the serum in the thorax presses upon the lungs till it causes suffocation. 



SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE PNEUMONIA 



COMMENCE with shivering, without spasms. Inspiration full ; expiration 

 short ; air expired hot, Nostrils red in the interior. Cough generally violent, with 

 expectoration of rusty mucus, not very profuse. Pulse quick, full, and soft. 



The STETHOSCOPE gives a crackling sound in the early stage, followed by 

 increased dullness, and, finally, by crepitating wheezing. 



PERCUSSION gives after the first stage a dull return to the finger. 



DISEASE TERMINATES in resolution, with cessation of the bad symptoms ; or 

 in solidification, called hepatization ; or sometimes in abscess of the lung. 



SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC PNEUMONIA. 



INSPIRATION and expiration both difficult and interrupted. Cough present, 

 but not frequent, and evidently avoided and suppressed. Expectoration rarely 

 profuse ; sometimes absent. 



STETHOSCOPE indicates hepatization, from the entire absence of murmur. 



PERCUSSION also gives a very dull return to the fingers. Sometimes there is 

 a mucous rattle. 



TERMINATES sometimes in resolution ; or, if fatal, in a discharge from the 

 nostrils of purulent matter, coloured with blood, and often very fetid. The animal 

 never lies down at length, but sits up on his hind legs. 



SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE BRONCHITIS 



COMMENCE also with shivering, followed by constant hard cough. Air 

 expired warm, but not so hot as in pneumonia. Inspiration and expiration both 

 full. Cough after a time attended with expectoration of mucus, at first sticky, soon 

 becoming frothy, and, finally, profuse and frothy. Pulse full and hard. 



The STETHOSCOPE gives a soap-bubble kind of sound, with wheezing. 



PERCUSSION elicits nothing of consequence. 



DISEASE TERMINATES either by resolution, or by extention to the cellular 

 membrane, constituting pneumonia in combination with bronchitis. 



SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. 



RESPIRATION free, but quicker than natural. Cough constant and intense, 

 evidently not restrained by fear of pain ; sometimes to such an extent as to cause 

 soreness of the muscles of the belly. 



