120 DALi & VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
8 predisposition to pleurisy. It has been noticed that animals of 
the sanguine temperament are more prone to the malady than 
others of different temperaments. Hence, the only way to prevent 
pleurisy is to try and keep up a good standard of health in horses, 
by affording them a chance to have regular exercise, pure air in 
the stable, and a fair allowance of good wholesome food. Pleurisy 
in the horse is very apt to end in hydro-thorax, or dropsy of the 
chest; and the case that I am now about to offer will illustrate 
this, as well as the symptoms and treatment. 
Case of Plewrisy and Dropsy of the Chest—A few mouths ago J 
was requested to visit a gray gelding, the property of a Mr. Waldo. 
The animal had been out of health for a week or more, suffering 
from a slight attack of influenza, but was improving—so thought 
the person who was in medical attendance; but the owner thought 
otherwise, and decided to secure my services. 
Symptoms.—On examination, the following symptoms were 
found present: Pulse, wiry; respirations, quick, laborious, and 
accompanied with a slight grunt, indicating pain within the chest. 
When pressure, ever so slight, was made on the sides of the chest, 
it elicited very decided symptoms of pain. The animal would 
occasionally turn its head toward the sides, as if to inform us of 
the seat of his sufferings. Dropsical swellings were observed un- 
der the chest and belly, and the hind legs were also dropsical, and 
the vascular surfaces of the mouth and nose were tinged slightly 
yellow; the feces were scanty, and the urine was high-colored ; 
the appetite was much impaired, but the patient was very thirsty. 
On the strength of the condition of the animal, and the presenta- 
tion of the above symptoms, and percussion revealing water in the 
chest, I informed my employer that the case was one of pleurisy 
and dropsy of the chest. It is probable that water had been accu- 
roulating in the chest for several days, and that the pleura was 
involved at the commencement of the malady. 
Treatment.—Dropsy of the chest is a very formidable disease to 
treat, and there are but few cases of cure on record; yet, I think 
if such cases came early into the J.ands of educated surgeons, and 
they use life-sustaining agents in view of husbanding the powers 
of the vital forces, more cures will hereafter be recorded. ‘The 
treatment of this case was as follows: I rubbed the s‘des of the 
chest occasionally with a portion of camphor dissolved in olive oil, 
and gave, morning and evening, during a period of seventeen dava. 
