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In the second stage bleeding would be injurious. It would not ar-- 

 rest the disease, and it would weaken the patient. In mankind, a 

 Set of medicines called absorbents, will cause the effused blood to be 

 taken up and removed from the lungs. No such medicines are known 

 in Veterinary practice &c. All that can be done, is to resort to the 

 "adjuvants" used in this disease when treating mankind, viz: local 

 bleeding by cups, or scarification, external irritation by blisters, row- 

 elling setoning, &c. These, if the constitution be strong and the 

 disease not too extensive, or far advanced, is sometimes efficacious. 



The third stage in man is treated by stimulants and tonics. Here 

 again the veterinary pharmacopoeia is deficient. 



Mr. Partridge's cow, was, as I have said, in the second stage and 

 far advanced. He had not the slightest doubt but that she would die 

 • and he kindly gave me permission to treat her. Not finding veteri- 

 nary prescriptions which seemed to me suitable to her case, I consid- 

 ered her as a large human being, that is, I gave her the same medi" 

 cines that I would a human being in larger quantities, viz* 



Calomel 1 drachm, 



Tartar Emetic, 



Powdered opium, each one scruple, 



made them into a bolus and gave one-sixth three times a day, and in 

 addition her sides, over lungs, were freely rubbed with a strong tinc- 

 ture of Spanish flies. This was done on Saturday afternoon. The 

 treatment had little if any apparent effect. On Tuesday night hei' 

 breathing was so labored that the noise kept the neighborhood awake. 

 On Wednesday she was evidently in great distress, and Mr. P. order- 

 ed her to be killed. Being very much occupied I did not see the 

 animal after Sunday. I have been informed, however, that when 

 knocked on the head, a large quantity, "about a pail full of matter" 

 ran from her mouth. This shows that the disease had reached the 

 third stage, that of suppuration. I would have been very glad to 

 have made a post mortem examinatio;:, but by an accident did not 

 hear of her death till several days ailer. 



I trust that I may be excused the lengthy report of this case, but 

 as it is in ray opinion a type of the disease in the country known as 

 distemper, fever, consumption, &c. now preval- rt, I ha v.; deemed it 

 proper to omit nothing of the above. 



I will now give you a s}nopsis, as briefly as possible, of the work 

 above alluded to, which is entitled "Traite, Sur la Maladie de Poilrine 



