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profess to be acquainted. Pour eggs at a time may be giveu, 

 and two doses a day sliould be allowed for two or three days in 

 succession. Prepare the eggs a's follows : — first break them, 

 into an empty vessel and beat them thoroughly together, then 

 add to the mass a quarter of an ounce of common salt, and 

 administer the whole to the patient with a small horn. Allow 

 the animal cold water to drink, or if preferred, milk and water. 



Give the first dose of eggs in the morning, the second in the 

 evening ; and in the middle of the day (for a few days in suc- 

 cession), half-a-pint of port wine, miied with a like quantity of 

 cold water. 



It is better to give the eggs and the wine at separate 

 periods ; if miKed together, the wine wUi coagulate them, and 

 the stomach, in all probability, will be tmduly excited in con- 

 sequence. As the power of the digestive organs improves, boiled 

 barley, or a little malt, or speared corn, or if in season, carrots 

 may be allowed. See Section VI., page 108. 



PNEUMONIA. 

 [inflammation or thb lunss.] 



It is a well known fact, especially to veterinary surgeons 

 of long practical experience, that equine diseases during the 

 last fifteen or twenty years have changed considerably in their 

 general characters. Prom whatever causes the changes in 

 question have arisen is a matter which is irrelevant to this 

 work ; the fact, however, I believe to be a veritable one ; and 

 in no other disease is it, perhaps, more evident than in Pneu- 

 monia. 



Formerly this disease existed, for the most part, in associa- 

 tion with what medical writers term a sthenic state of the 

 organism : — that is, the powers of life were more vigorous when 

 the animal was affected with the disease than what we find them 



