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from day to day excepting ia 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 bos with wmdows 

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

 prevailiug winds, clothe warmly, and flannel-bandage the 

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

 rugs advised for congested lungs may be apphed, and 

 when removed let it be done a Httle 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 driuks of warm gruel 

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

 more active forms of the disease, but should be given cau- 

 tiously 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 (belladonna, henbane, tincture of aconite, digi- 

 tahs or white hellebore ; 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 bHstered with a pulp 

 of the best ground mustard in water, or Spanish flies, or 

 in cattle and swine, mustard and turpentine, and the bhs- 

 ter 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 T^Tung out of boiling water 

 and then the application of the bhster 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 bhs- 

 ter. When well risen the surface must be kept soft by 

 sweet oil or fresh lard to favor heahng. In chickens it is 

 advised to open the bowels by a teaspoonful of castor-oil, 

 and shake one-twelfth gi-ain of tartar emetic on the tongue 

 twice a day. If very weak or prostrate give a teaspoonful 

 of sherry thrice a da v. 



