TA THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
blowing into a quill; should one lung be sound, its natural murmur is in- 
creased. (4). In purulent infiltration, abscesses form, without sound, or 
the lung is broken, opening into the bronchial tube and producing a deep 
sound, like that caused by blowing into a jug; sometimes a tinkling sound 
occurs, owing to pus in the cavity; if pus enters the bronchial tube, a gur- 
gling sound arises, with coughing, by which a thick gray or white matter is 
thrown out of the mouth; symptoms of gangrene are also detected, but are 
attended by extreme offensiveness of the breath and the discharge from the 
mouth. 
TREATMENT.—For shivering, lassitude, hurried breathing, quick and 
weak pulse, cold nose, ears and legs, and rough coat, give ammonium caus- 
ticum every half-hour until the coldness disappears. 
In the first stage (capillary irritation), and in congestion marked by 
quick, full pulse, dry, hot mouth, reddened mucous membrane of the nose and 
eyes, and disturbed breathing, give aconite every half-hour or hour. As 
soon as the inflammatory stage has set in, marked by crackling sounds in 
the chest, heaving at the flanks, oppressed pulse, cold extremities, and dis- 
charge of reddish or yellowish matter from the nose and mouth, phosphorus 
should be given alternately with aconite every two hours. Bromine is 
highly beneficial when inflammation runs so high in the lungs and adjacent 
parts as to threaten suppuration or gangrene. Prepare it as follows:—In a 
six-ounce bottle put twelve drops of bromine, at once fill it up with water; 
of this mixture one ounce is the dose, but it must be given in four ounces of 
water, as it is very strong. Bromine is very volatile, and the bottle con- 
taining it should not be opened or exposed to the light more frequently 
than is necessary. In ordinary cases of pneumonia, bromine does not act so 
well as phosphorus, but there have been cases in which the latter failed and 
the former succeeded, and vice versa.  Bryonia should be alternated with 
phosphorus every hour in the ¢hird stage (hepatization), marked by ab- 
sence of sound in some parts, or bronchial breathing in others; also, when 
the breathing has become quickened and not so deep; sometimes catching, 
with painful, short, suppressed cough; or loose cough with discharge of 
frothy phlegm; pain from striking or pressing between the ribs. Tartar 
emetic is useful when the fourth stage has set in, and is called for by loose, 
rattling cough and free discharge of mucus from both nostrils. After the 
active inflammatory symptoms have subsided, and the pulse, though quick, 
is small and weak, especially where the breath becomes offensive and symp- 
toms of a typhoid character occur, and when effusion has taken place in the 
chest, no time should be lost in giving arsenicum every two or three hours. 
In extreme cases a mustard-lotion should be applied to the sides with rub- 
bing, and repeated the next day if necessary. Avoid blisters and like irri- 
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