PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN COWS. 
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urine also natural; mucous discharge from both nostrils; mem- 
branes red ; muzzle moist and cold ; mouth warm and moist. 
On auscultating the chest, I could hear the respiratory murmur 
pretty clearly, shewing that the lungs were not in a state of 
organic disease : at least, such was my conviction. She was 
very tender between the intercostal spaces, especially on the 
right side. 
Treatment . — T had her housed, and gave a mild aperient 
conjoined with an aromatic. On the 24th, two days after, I 
called to see her again. The medicine had had its proper effect, 
but she was much worse. I introduced a seton between the 
front legs, and dressed it with ung. vesicat. ; and gave stimu- 
lating tonic draughts, turned her out in the field for the day, 
and directed she should be housed at night. Morning and 
evening she was to have a mess of oatmeal, potatoes, and stir- 
about. This day I was asked to see another cow, the property 
of a neighbour. She had the distemper. The symptoms and 
treatment were so similar to the case above alluded to that it is 
unnecessary I should relate them. The agents employed were 
sol. cup. atnmon. combined with pulv. gentianse, zingiber, &c. 
They progressed very slowly at first, but in the course of a few 
days their appetites, spirits, and condition, were soon mani- 
fested. The pulse and respiration, after persevering a fortnight 
with this plan of treatment, arrived at their natural standard, 
and the animals did well. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia has not raged so frightfully this year, 
1851, as it did the last year. It has, nevertheless, been very 
prevalent. I was called to a young dry cow, the property of a 
gentleman, which was said to be labouring under a liver disease, 
for which presumed complaint he had been treating her. Not 
thinking, however, he should succeed in combating the enemy, 
he wished me to see her. I saw her on the 18th of July last. 
After a careful examination, I concluded that she had pleuro- 
pneumonia, and not hepatitis. The gentleman, not liking her 
condition, only half an hour prior to my arrival, had bled her, 
and directed her to have four ounces of mag. sulph. The pulse 
at the time I saw her, after the loss of about two pounds of the 
vital fluid, was 130, so weak as to be scarcely felt at the jaw ; 
respiration as near 130 as possible. I advised she should be 
killed out of her misery, which was speedily done. 
On the 3 1st of the same month this gentleman had another 
two-year-old sick. He desired I would go immediately, and do 
all that was necessary. 
SYMPTOMS. — Pulse 80, and small, and the artery had a 
double action; respiration 40, and rather catching — a sort of 
spasmodic breathing, as I think Professor Simonds describes 
