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Inflammation of the lungs is a dangerous affection, and requires careful 
treatment and management. The horse should be placed in a welt 
ventilated, but not draughty loose box, the temperature of which should be 
kept at 70° to 75°F. The body should be clothed with rugs, and should be 
gently rubbed down occasionally with wisps of hay. Bleeding is necessary 
in the case of heavy draught horses kept in very high condition, as 
many of the agricultural and draught horses are, and also plethoric horses 
of other breeds, when the difficulty of breathing is very great and the fever 
high. In such cases it is our practice to remove from four to six quarts of 
blood from the jugular vein. We may allow the horse as much tepid or 
warm water as he will take, and with this object should leave a moderate 
supply by him. The diet should be laxative and nutritious, consisting of 
bran-mashes, linseed and oatmeal gruel, hay in moderate quantity, and roots 
or grass. After the subsidence of the fever, stronger and more nutritious 
diet should be substituted. 
During the fever, a draught, containing four ounces of liquor ammonii 
acetatis, five minims of Fleming’s tincture of aconite, one ounce of nitric 
ether, and two drachms of nitrate of potassium may be given with water to 
half a pint every four or five hours, until the acute symptoms abate. Active 
purgatives should not be given in this disease, but if there be great 
constipation, half a pint of linseed or castor oil may be given. In the later 
stages, and where there is marked debility, stimulants are required, and six 
oreight ounces of whiskey may be given three. times 2s daily, and may e 
persevered | with if it prove beneficial, ot ee 
During convalesence, tonics are required, and the formula mentioned 
in treating of influenza will be found useful. With regard to the local 
applications in pneumonia, when the extremities are very cold, they must be 
rubbed with some stimulating application of a non-irritating kind, and 
woollen cloths wrung out from hot water may be assiduously applied with 
great advantage around the chest. These should be renewed every two 
hours or oftener, as long as the disease continues in the acute stage. This 
hot pack should be closely applied, so that no cold air can pass between the 
rugs and the skin; and the temperature should be as high as the animal is 
able to bear. | A good method of applying this treatment is to obtain a piece 
of felt about an inch thick anda foot anda half wide, fitted with straps. 
After being well wrung out from hot water and applied closely to the chest, # 
waterproof lined with flannel should be strapped round the felt. A simpler 
method is the application of an old blanket, wrung out thoroughly, and folded 
three or four times. Over it is placed a dry rug, the whole being fastened 
by a surcingle or line. = 
PLEURISY. 
PLEURISY, or inflammation of the lining of the walls of the chest and the lungs, 
is frequently set up by exposure to cold and vicissitudes of temperature. We 
have already seen that it is frequently associated with, or supervenes after 
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