180 The Farmer's Yeterina/ry Adviser. 



place the measures already advised but should be added to 

 them. An excellent resort when available is to wrap from 

 head to tail in rugs wrung out of hot water and cover thickly 

 with dry ones, the limbs being meanwhile actively hand- 

 rubbed to bring the blood to this part of the skin which the 

 rug cannot reach. 



If the patient survives and does not at once entirely re- 

 cover the case becomes one oi jpneumonia. 



PIJEUMOiaA. mrLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



Co/uses. The same as in other acute diseases of the chest. 

 Also the result of overexertion and acute congestion, or of 

 parasites in the lung. Lobular pneumonia has a micrococcus. 



Symptoms. If not following an acute congestion as above 

 described there is shivering, more or less severe according to 

 the gravity of the attack, and usually a dry cough. This is 

 followed by hot skin, with increased temperature, quick but 

 deep labored breathing and a full bnt oppressed rolling 

 pulse, redness of the membranes of the eye, nose and mouth ; 

 the cough is deep as if from the depth of the chest but not 

 so hard nor so painful as in bronchitis. The horse always, 

 and the ox, in bad cases, obstinately stands with legs apart, 

 elbows turned out, nose extended and usually approached to 

 a door or window. In cattle expiration is generally accom- 

 panied by a moan. With the fever there is costiveness, 

 high-colored, scanty urine, in cattle, heat of horns and ears 

 and dryness of muzzle, and hide-bound. Auscultation de- 

 tects a very fine crackling (crepitation) over the affected 

 part of the lung or there may be an area of no sound en- 

 circled by a line of crepitation and beyond that by the nor- 

 mal murmur slightly increased. Or over the dull spot the 

 blowing sounds from the larger tubes or the beating of the 

 heart may be detected. Percussion causes flinching or even 

 groaning when the affected part is i-eached ; the space where 

 sound was wanting in auscultation sounds dull and solid and 

 the remainder of the chest retains its healthy resonance. 

 There is no tenderness on merely pinching the spaces be- 

 tween the ribs. By auscultation and percussion the increase 



