98 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



absent respiratory sounds in the chest, with dullness on per- 

 cussion show that the lungs are seriously involved. Thus 

 there may be the symptoms of pneumonia, pleurisy, bron- 

 chitis, hydrothorax, pericarditis, hydropericardium, etc. 

 Clots sometimes form in the heart, modifying the heart- 

 sounds and proving rapidly fatal. 



In other cases the abdominal organs suffer, and with great 

 torpor, stupor, tension and tenderness of the abdominal 

 walls there are colicky pains, ardent thirst, coated tongue, 

 yellowness of the membranes of nose and eyes, yellow or 

 reddish urine, costive bowels and dung in pellets thickly 

 coated with mucus. 



Sometimes rheumatic swelling and tenderness take place 

 in the muscles and joints of the limbs, and may even last 

 for months. At others, paralysis or delirium will ensue, or, 

 finally, severe inflammation of the eyes. 



Treatment. Overcome costiveness by injections of warm 

 water, or by one-third the usual doses of linseed oil or aloes. 

 Give mild febrifuge diuretics (liquor of acetate of ammonia, 

 spirit of nitrous ether), with anodynes (extract of bella- 

 donna), and when fever subsides or great prostration comes 

 on, stimulants (nitrons ether, aromatic ammonia, carbonate 

 of ammonia) and even tonics (gentian, calumba, quassia). 



Counter-irritants (ammonia and oil, equal parts, mustard, 

 etc.) may be iised from the first to the throat, sides, or ab- 

 domen, according to the seat of the inflammation. 



Soft mashes, roots, or green food, pure air, without 

 draughts, and warm clothing are essentials of treatment 

 throughout. 



If the abdominal organs are the main seat of disease, 

 supplement the medicines above named by demulcents (slip- 

 pery elm, mallow, boiled linseed) and anodynes (opium, 

 hydrocyanic acid) with, in some cases, a gentle laxative 

 (olive oil). Nervous symptoms may demand wet cloths to 

 the head, blisters to the sides of the neck, purgatives, unless 



