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occurs, leading to dyspnceic breathing, accompanied by chronic 

 discharge and predisposing to subsequent attacks or aggravations 

 of the broncho-pneumonia and even of haemoptysis (Cadeac). 

 In all such cases the disease of the lungs is indefinitely prolonged. 



Treatment. Prevention should be sought by avoidance of the 

 usual causes of bronchitis, and especially of chill. In the case 

 of animals that refuse to stand, hypostatic congestion should be 

 avoided by propping up the animal with straw bundles or bags 

 so that he will rest on the side of the sternum and lower part of 

 the ribs, instead of flat on the side. When he can stand without 

 injury he may be put in a sling. 



Curative treatment will not differ materially from that of bronchi- 

 tis on one hand and fibrinous pneumonia on the other. The high 

 temperature may be met by abundance of cool drinking water, 

 by damp compresses to the chest, by alkaline diuretics, or more 

 promptly still by acetanilid. For elimination of toxins, potas- 

 sium iodide or bicarbonate, or nitrate may be used. As ex- 

 pectorants ammonium chloride or carbonate or acetate, or in- 

 halations of fumes of tar, carbolic acid, creolin, cresyl, creosote, 

 oil of turpentine, eucalyptol. One or other of these expectorants 

 may be given in the form of electuary made up with liquorice 

 and honey and smeared on the back teeth. Counterirritants to 

 the sides of the chest are often of value, — soap liniment, aqua 

 ammonia and oil, mustard, cantharides. 



Tracheal injections of various kinds have been tried, the least 

 irritating is hydrogen peroxide, while iodine solutions (iodine 

 I dram, potassium 5 drams, water i}^ quart) tend to prevent 

 the propagation of invading microbes and check their ravages, 

 but in certain susceptible subjects the iodine itself proves too 

 irritating to the tender mucosa. 



