286 The Diseases of Animals 
and well-ventilated stall where there is plenty of sun- 
light. The food should be nourishing and easily 
digested, as sweet milk alone, or with raw eggs beaten 
in, gruels, oats steamed or dry, apples, ete. Cold 
compresses, made by folding blankets, wringing them 
out of cold water, should be placed firmly against the 
lungs, and covered with dry blankets. These should 
be continued several hours, and changed frequently. 
When they are removed, the part should be rubbed 
dry, and a stimulating liniment or mustard plaster 
rubbed on. The mustard is mixed with tepid water 
to a thin paste and rubbed into the hair over the 
lungs. When the plaster has acted sufficiently it should 
be carefully removed with a curry-comb. 
In giving medicine, great care must be exercised 
not to excite or to choke the animal, because more 
harm than good results from harsh treatment. Do not 
drench a horse suffering from pneumonia unless it be 
really necessary. In the early stages, during the chill, 
stimulants may be given,—whiskey in two-ounce doses, 
or an ounce of spirits of nitrous ether. These may be 
repeated in an hour. After the chill is over, the fever 
may be treated by giving small doses, fifteen drops, of 
the tincture of aconite, alternating with thirty drops 
of fluid extract of belladonna, every hour. <A heaping 
teaspoonful of saltpeter (nitrate of potash) may be 
given in the drinking water twice daily. As soon as 
the fever begins to subside, the other medicines may 
be stopped and one-half dram of iodide of potash 
be given twice dailv for two or three davs. 
In the early stages of the disease enemas (injec- 
