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or decrease of solidification {Jiepatization) of the lung may be 

 followed from day to day excepting in the parts covered by 

 the thick, muscular shoulder. In this way aggravation and 

 improvement can be noticed. A yellowish or whitish dis- 

 charge from the nose comes on as the disease advances. 



Treatment. Give a pure, dry, airy box with windows 

 or doors turned to the sun or away from the direction of 

 prevailing winds, clothe warmly, and flannel-bandage the 

 limbs, or even rub them with ammonia and oil. The hot 

 rugs advised for congested lungs riiay be applied, and 

 when removed let it be done a little at a time, and the part 

 rubbed dry and covered by a dry blanket. Or a mustard 

 poultice may be applied to the sides of the chest. Large 

 injections of warm water and drinks of warm gruel may 

 also be given. A laxative is often beneficial in the more 

 active forms of the disease, but should be given cautiously 

 as in bronchitis, and rejected when there is low fever, and 

 much depression. Neutral salts (nitre, acetate of potassa, 

 bicarbonate of soda,) should be given with sedatives (bella- 

 donna, henbane, tincture of aconite, digitalis or white helle- 

 bore; in pigs and dogs, tartar emetic), or if there is much 

 prostration, or when the fever has in the main subsided, 

 stimulant diuretics (sweet spirits of nitre, liquor of acetate 

 of ammonia,) repeated three or four times a day. The 

 sides should be blistered with a pulp of the best ground 

 mustard in water, or Spanish flies, or in cattle and swine, 

 mustard and turpentine, and the blister may be repeated 

 with advantage in protracted cases. "When in severe cases 

 the blister refuses to rise, the skin may be first warmed 

 with rugs wrung out of boiling water and then the applica- 

 tion of the blister made. Or a hot shovel held near the 

 blistered surface may determine an active flow of blood to 

 the skin and the rising of the blister. When well risen the 

 sui-face must be kept soft by sweet oil or fresh lard to favor 

 healing. In chickens it is advised to open the bowels by a 

 teaspoonful of castor-oil, and shake one-twelfth grain of 

 tartar emetic on the tongue twice a day. If very weak or 

 prostrate give a teaspoonful of sherry thrice a day. 



