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so it ought to be considered as a grave manifestation which 
must be promptly combated. 
Thermometry also enables the veterinary surgeon to esti- 
mate the effects produced by the medicaments employed ; in 
pleurisy with thoracic effusion, he can direct his choice be- 
tween saline and irritant diuretics. 
These different results and combinations were based on 
the facts observed by Peters during the progress of an 
epizooty of “ influenza.” 
In studying the thermometrical variations in catarrhal 
pneumonia, it was found that there were regular exacerba- 
tions towards the evening. The difference between the mean 
and minimum temperature for the day was greater during 
the period of resolution than at the height of the malady. 
The daily increase of temperature towards the evening 
appears to be a fact common to all the catarrhal inflamma- 
tions of the respiratory organs, which are distinguished from 
pneumonia and pleurisy by these regular nocturnal exacerba- 
tions ; for though in the latter maladies there are fluctuations 
of temperature, yet there are not the steady augmentations 
towards evening. 
Thermometry is of great utility in the hydropathic treat- 
ment of disease, as it permits the effects produced by the 
action of the water to be registered, and so replaces in a com- 
plete manner the indications that the subjective symptoms 
furnish to the healer of mankind in the employment of 
hydrotherapy. It is to be observed that enemas of cold 
water considerably modify the teachings afforded by rectal 
thermometry. 
The thermometrical observations collected by Peters among 
sheep affected with smallpox were variable ; but the lowest 
temperature was noticed in those animals in which the 
pustules had reached their most advanced degree of develop- 
ment, and which, when they were incised, yielded an abund- 
ance of transparent serosity and but little blood. It also 
appeared that in this disease the mean temperature is elevated 
at the commencement, and moderate during the eruption, 
and that it increases again when the contents of the pustules 
becomes purulent, but falls considerably when death is about 
to take place. — Wochenschrift fur Thierlieilkunde , 1870. 
( To be continued .) 
