282 The Diseases of Animals 
a high fever, in which the temperature may go to 
106 degrees. The pulse is full, soft and rapid, sixty 
to eighty beats per minute. The respirations are 
hurried, but not labored. There is a cough, which, in 
the early stages, is short, dry and husky; but in the 
later stages it becomes moist and suppressed, a frothy 
mucus often being coughed up. The appetite is lost 
or impaired, and the bowels constipated. In the early 
stages, the dung is hard and dry, but as the disease 
progresses, it often becomes coated with a slimy mucus. 
The urine is scant and high-colored. By applying 
the ear to the front part of the chest, one can hear a 
rattling sound, like forcing air through frothy mucus. 
Just back of the shoulder a whistling sound (sibilus) 
ean be heard as the air rushes through the small 
bronchial tubes. The expired air is laden with moist- 
ure, and the mucous membrane of the nostrils is con- 
gested and red. Horses stand during this disease, 
while other animals usually he down. . 
Hygienic treatment is best. Supply clean, warm, 
dry quarters, with plenty of fresh air, but no draughts. 
Clothe the animal warmly and apply over the chest a 
blanket wrung out of cold water, with dry blankets 
over this. The wet blankets should be renewed every 
hour. During the chill, give stimulants, whiskey in 
two-ounce doses, sweet spirits of nitre in ounce doses, 
or aromatic spirits of ammonia in ounce doses; and 
repeat these doses every hour until the chill is 
stopped. Then give small doses of aconite, fifteen 
drops of the tincture alternating with one-half dram 
of fluid extract of belladonna. Two-dram doses of 
