736 ON THE PLEURO PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE. 
put on of fresh melted pitch, which I directed should remain on 
until she was well. 
I saw the cow a few weeks afterwards, and she looked very well. 
She afterwards calved, milked well, and is now about to be sold to 
the butcher for beef. She is quite fat. 
ON THE PLEURA PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE. 
By Mr. JOHN YOUNG HUSBAND, Gray stoke. 
It is not without the greatest diffidence that I am induced to 
communicate the following course of treatment adopted by me in 
that direful disease, the prevailing epizootic, or pleura pneumonia of 
Mr. Barlow ; but having seen numerous cases in different loca- 
lities bordering on the edge of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 
I am induced to give a short outline of the same ; and, as the 
symptoms, post-mortem appearances, &c., have been so clearly laid 
down by Mr. B. and others, I conceive it to be a waste of time, and 
a trespass upon the pages of your valuable Journal to repeat them. 
For the sake of regularity I divide the disease into an acute and 
a sub-acute inflammatory stage. 
First stands the acute. When I am requested to visit a patient 
in this stage of the disorder (which I have termed acute for dis- 
tinction’s sake), and find him with all the symptoms of active inflam- 
mation, I immediately abstract blood until the pulse warns me 
to desist ; then if, as is generally the case, the bowels are in a 
constipated state, I administer an active purgative, combined with 
a small dose of tincture of opium. 
If, after this, the bowels do not respond freely to the medicine, 
I frequently administer small doses of ol. lini and pulv. opii until 
the desired effect is produced ; if possible keeping from superpur- 
gation, a circumstance to be feared at all times. After the alimentary 
canal is thus well cleared, and to abate any subsequent inflamma- 
tory symptoms, the tartarized antimony, digitalis, potas. nit., with 
hydr. submur. may be administered twice in the day, but from 
which I have not derived much benefit ; because, if administered 
in large doses, or continued for a considerable length of time, they 
occasion a diarrhoea sometimes difficult to restrain. 
In general, and lately extensively, I have used the liq. opii 
sedativus, and spt. of nitrous ether, in small doses ; giving in the 
morning, and towards evening, a solution of the hydr. potass., 
and continuing the same morning and evening, until my patient 
