Pleuro-Pneiimonia amongst Cattle. 
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The course that I pursue when consulted about this disease 
is directed by two considerations : the one, that of saving the animal ; 
the other, that of considering the interests of the proprietor. 
If I am called in during the first, or beginning of the second 
stage, I have recourse to a treatment which we shall shortly de- 
scribe. Rut if the disease be so far advanced as to render the 
result of treatment very doubtful, I generally recommend the 
animal to be slaughtered, so as to expose the proprietor to the 
least possible loss. I do not wish it to be inferred from this 
practice that the disease in its second stage is necessarily incu- 
rable, for I have had some cases of recovery from it ; but those 
instances are so few as scarcely to warrant one in running the 
risk of increasing deterioration in the value of the animal for the 
chances of recovery. 
As regards treatment in the last stage, I consider the animal 
in so hopeless a condition that it is scarcely worth while having 
recourse to it, and I generally recommend it to be killed, in order 
to put an end to its sufferings. 
That this report therefore may be of as much practical use 
as possible, we shall dwell at most length on the treatment of the 
first stage, not however omitting that of the second. 
Treatment. 
If, on examination, we find that the animal has a cough, but no 
particular loss of appetite, no dryness of muzzle, and no heaving 
at the flank, the best plan is to apply counter-irritants, such as 
setoning, or pegging in the dew-lap : of the two, we prefer the 
latter, it having proved more effectual. The operations may be 
performed as follows : if a seton be employed, a large and sharp 
seton-needle should be used, armed with coarse filleting or a 
mixture of tow and horse-hair ; each end must be tied into a large 
knot. The seton should be dressed once or twice a week with 
strong blistering ointment. For pegging, an incision is made on 
either side of the dew-lap with a pair of rowelling scissors, or 
scalpel, sufficiently large to admit the end of the fore-finger. 
The integuments are then separated from the cellular tissue be- 
neath, between which parts two or three small pieces of the fresh 
root of Black Hellebore (Helleborus niger) are inserted, or in 
place of these a small portion of tow besmeared with blistering 
ointment, may be used. When the condition of the animal admits, 
an occasional purge of a ftj or aftjss of Magnes. Sulph. should be 
given, combined with an aromatic, as gj of caraway or cumin 
seed powdered, to prevent any depressing effects that might at- 
tend its action. 
But if, in addition to the cough, any symptoms of febrile dis- 
turbance should exist, such as unusual heat of the horns, dryness 
of the muzzle, accelerated pulse whether strong or oppressed, 
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