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Avith the most satisfactory results. We have reason to believe 

 that in allopathic practice, administered in substantial doses of a 

 preparation consisting of one part lodme, two parts of Iodide of 

 Potassium and loo parts of vs^ater, injected into the trachea (wind- 

 pipe) very satisfactory results have followed; but this fact does not 

 deprive the agent of its homoeopathicity in purpose; it is merely a 

 further illustration of a statement we once heard to the effect that 

 when allopathists manage to effect a cure it is always on homoeo- 

 pathic principles, an opinion with which w^e fully concur. 



So soon as the animal can be induced to partake of nourishing 

 food the better for its prospects of complete convalescence; mean- 

 while, the usual careful nursing and building up with easily 

 ■digestible food must be assiduously resorted to. 



DISEASES OF PARTS AND ORGANS INCLUDED IN THE 

 RESPIRATORY TRACT. 



Little introduction's called for in approaching the consideration 

 of this class of diseases, which in the horse produce some of the 

 most serious conditions affecting the animal's utility, that have to 

 be combatted by medical treatment; already we have referred to 

 the methods and importance of physical examination to enable 

 •one to determine, as far as that is possible, what particular parts 

 are the seat of disease and to what extent that disease has ad- 

 vanced; such as tapping the chest over the region enclosed by the 

 ribs, technically described as ''percussion,'" to determine th^ con- 

 ■dition of the lungs; listening to the sounds observable as the 

 processes of breathing, ''inspiration''' and "expiration,'" goon 

 or auscultation, to datermine up to a certain point the condition 

 of tha lungs, together with that of the fine membrane which lines 

 the outside of the lungs and the inside of the walls of the chest, 

 •called the pleura; hence the well-known term pleurisy. 



Already these physical signs have been touched upon so far as 

 the same are likely to prove useful to the layman; the detection 

 of the finer and more delicate symptoms by these methods calls 

 for the experience of one trained and practised in the art, and 

 therefore we deem it inadvisable to take up further space in deal- 

 ing with this special branch of our subject. 



