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Sijmptoms. The disease comes on suddenly with ex- 

 treme wealmess and stupor. There is often pendent 

 ]iead, half-closed, lustreless eyes, great disinclination to 

 move, with swaying gait, and cracking joints. Appetite is 

 lost, mouth hot, clammy, bowels costive, urine scanty and- 

 high-colored, pulse accelerated and weak (sometimes 

 hard), a cough, deep, painful and racking comes on, crep- 

 itation or harsh blowing sounds are heard in the chest, 

 and the membrane of the nose assumes a bright pink or 

 dull leaden hue. The ears and limbs are alternately cold 

 and hot, the hair rough, the skin tender and frequently 

 trembling. 



Soon the nose discharges a white, yellowish, or greenish 

 matter, and the animal may recover, or an increasingly 

 heavy breathing, depth and painfulness of cough, and 

 changed or absent respiratory sounds in the chest, with 

 dullness on percussion show that the lungs are seriously 

 involved. Thus there may be the symptoms of pneumonia, 

 pleurisy, bronchitis, hydrothorax, pericarditis, hydroperi- 

 cardium, etc. Clots sometimes form in the heart, modify- 

 ing the heart sounds and proving rapidly fatal. 



In other cases the abdominal organs suffer, and with 

 great torpor, stupor, tension and tenderness of the abdom- 

 inal 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 belladoima), and when fever subsides or great prostra- 

 tion comes on, stimulants (nitrous ether, aromatic am- 



