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the sore lungs and checks the breathing that was already short to suf- 
focation, cannot now be suppressed. It continues until a quantity of 
discolored fluid is ejected from the nostrils, then a brief respite ensues ; 
but, as time progresses, the fits grow more severe and much longer, 
while the strength to endure them even more rapidly decreases. 
It reads sadly, that hundreds of horses have thus perished without 
making any impresssion upon either masters or men. The directions, 
which have been given at some length, will probably be discarded by 
grooms as far too troublesome; they like the man who can give physic 
to a horse when the animal is sick, and ‘‘wants no more bother made.” 
The proprietors will object to the expense and the personal superintend- 
ence which is necessitated. Most gentlemen hurry through the stable 
as though they were intruders upon their own premises, and expected all 
business there transacted to be dispatched most expeditiously. The 
master, when in the stable, is never at home; he is generally very much 
abroad; the groom, if a horse dies, always knew of something which 
must have saved the life, only it wasn’t tried; and to prove his compre- 
hension of the malady, in answer to inquiries, he says, thereby showing 
the real extent of his information, “The horse caught a cold and died 
of an inflammation.” The employer commonly follows a system which 
custom approves; he does not trouble himself to hire a better qualified 
or a less prejudiced attendant for his stables. The place and all that is 
in it continues the same, only it contains one life the less. The lesson is 
thrown away, and all this great suffering in a huge animal has produced 
no more than a passing regret for the pecuniary loss. 
PNEUMONIA.—INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 
Under this title our grandfathers congregated all affections of the 
lungs. Congestion, bronchitis, pleurisy were all regarded as stages of 
THE COMMENCEMENT OF PNEUMONIA. 
pneumonia. This error, even at the present time, confuses the descrip- 
tions of most authors. True pneumonia is, consequently, now more 
