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To complete recovery, a course of vegetable tonics, such as gen- 

 tian, nux vomica, calumba, may be given with iodide of potass- 

 ium for a week or more. Constipation occurring during conva- 

 lescence must always be corrected by food, (bran mashes, linseed 

 gruel), injections, or oleaginous, saline, or aloetic laxatives. The 

 greatest care should be exercised to secure pure air, comfort, sun- 

 shine, good grooming and general hygiene, and to prevent over- 

 exertion during convalesence. 



In the subacute types of pneumonia, the fundamental difference 

 in the treatment consists in the avoidance of all depressing reme- 

 dies, and the employment of stimulants and a supporting diet from 

 the beginning. Sweet spirits'of nitre and liquor of the acetate of 

 ammonia, carbonate of ammonia or salammoniac with digitalis 

 and strychnia, may be used from the first. Vegetable tonics may 

 be resorted to at an early stage, peroxide of hydrogen, and when 

 expectoration is established and the fever moderated, even mineral 

 tonics may be employed. Nourishing gruels, mashes, roots, 

 green food, and scalded oats may be used in turn to coax the ap- 

 petite and not to satiate. In other respects the treatment is the 

 same as for the acute. This form of the disease is liable to prove 

 obstinate and persistent, and there appears to be a greater ten- 

 dency to complications and so called metastasis, as enteritis, lami- 

 nitis or rheumatoid affections of the back or limbs. These when 

 they occur, must be treated as if they had arisen in ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, having regard meanwhile to the remaining inflam- 

 mation in the lungs, for that has not necessarily been quite super- 

 seded but only alleviated. 



Chronic Pneumonia. This has been described, but if uncom- 

 plicated by consumption, it appears to be usually only that consolida- 

 tion of lung, due to the organization of exuded products into fibrous 

 tissue, which occasionally forms a sequel of acute inflammation of 

 the lungs. In such cases an access of circumscribed local conges- 

 tion is liable to result from overexertion, or a chronic state of ir- 

 ritation is maintained, attended with more or less fever, inappetence, 

 mal-assimilation, and often in the long run, hectic, under which the 

 animal is worn out. In such cases the chief indications are to 

 avoid overwork or any undue strain upon the breathing organs, to 

 support the patient by nourishing and easily digested food, and to 

 control and remove any local irritation by measures indicated under 

 the head of acute pneumonia. 



