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material;'' now, in reference to both these conditions it is quite 

 clear that before the lung can be restored to a healthy state and 

 rendered capable of performing the function of respiration aright, 

 this formed material, which is certainly a foreign body must be 

 removed; this is performed by what is commonly called '^resolu- 

 tion ' ' by which we must understand that the formed material or 

 solid tissue situate in and around the air tubes has to be resolved 

 into a fluid again, taken up by the various blood vessels and lym- 

 pathics and in this way be conveyed out of the system; very 

 frequentl}^ while this process of resolution is going on, the formed 

 material does not become fluid enough, nor have the air tubes 

 sufficient power and vitality to expel it in its more solid form in 

 the shape of expectoration, therefore some remedy is called for 

 that will facilitate the process and render it possible to get rid of 

 this accumulation; Antim. tart, will as a rule effect the desired end 

 and afford the patient the relief so urgently needed; in order to 

 determine the proper time for the administration listen carefully 

 with the ear against the ribs in various positions for a bubbling 

 or rattling sound, as though air was passing forcibly through 

 water, while at the same time the horse evinces difficult}' in breath- 

 ing and seems well nigh choked b}^ the partial rising of a large 

 quantity of soft mucus which he cannot quite succeed in expell- 

 ing. 



Arsenicum album 3X is called for not infrequently in cases that 

 after progressing so far discontinue improvement and fall back 

 again; especially incases that assume a typhoid form; diarrhoea, 

 increased fever, weak, small, wiry pulse, effusion of fluid into the 

 chest, (which may be discovered by pulling one foreleg foreward 

 and listening at the bottom of the chest, when a dripping as of 

 water into a well may be heard, ) increased difficulty of breathing: 

 restlessness, unwillingness, more than ever, to lie down; no appe- 

 tite, but increased thirst; cold, clammy condition of mouth and 

 wings of the nostrils; extreme prostration, are the indications for 

 this remedy. 



It is further useful in conjunction with Phosphorus (not ad- 

 ministered together) in those cases where resolution of the formed 

 material has not taken place thoroughly, and, so called thick wind 

 is the consequence; a week of Arsenicum followed by a week of 

 Phosphorus will often materially improve such a case, especially 



