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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



larynx through the trachea into the bronchial tubes and air passages trf 

 the lungs, and ends sometimes in confirmed and incurable bronchitis. 



How to know it. — In the acute stage there is difficulty and rapidity 

 of breathing, from the filling of the membranes with blood and the con 

 sequent diminishing of the size of the tube. After a time mucus is 

 formed and increases the difficulty of breathing and causes a cough. The 

 pulse will be 60 or 70 beats per minute ; the cough will become hard and 

 dry, and the sound in the throat will be rattling, and after the secretion 

 of mucus a gurgling sound will be given similar to that made in blowing 

 soap bubbles. In extreme cases the breathing becomes extremely labori- 

 ous, the cough is constant and distressing, the legs are extended, and at 

 length the animal dies of suffocation. 



A H0R3B DRBSSED FOR BRONCHITIS. 



What to do. — The first step is to find the extent of the inflammation. 

 Never bleed. Clothe the animal warmly and give an injection of warm 

 water to relieve the bowels. Avoid all strong purgatives. In fact, givb 

 none unless the bowels are decidedly bound up. Let the food be soft and 

 laxative, green grass in Summer, or mashes and gruels in Winter. For the 

 throat, scalded soft hay, fastened by means of the eight tailed bandages, 

 will be good. Wash the neck and chest with a weak decoction of tobacco 

 as hot as it can be borne. When dry, shave the hair from the chest and 

 apply a blister of better strength than that advised for chest founder 

 The following will be good : 



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1 Ounce powdered cantharides, 

 1 Ounce powdered resin, 

 4 Ounces lard oil. 



Melt the resin and lard together, with just sufficient heat to melt xxm 



