PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 391 
eased state ; its parenchyma was easily broken down with the 
finger, the whole organ presenting a mere pulpy mass. An 
extensive rupture of its own and the peritoneal tunic had 
taken place, and much blood had become extravasated into 
the abdomen. The intestines were slightly inflamed, and the 
right kidney enlarged. 
Contemporary Progress of Veterinary Science 
and Art, 
By John Gtamgee, M.R.C.V.S., 
Late Lecturer on Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, London ; 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. 
{Continued from p. 341.) 
TREATMENT OE PLEURO-PNEUMONIA (continued). 
The observations that I last month committed to the 
pages of this Journal, intended as they were, in a measure, to 
supplant false theory by the unalloyed exposition of fact, and 
to show the futility of explanations of morbid phenomena 
based on the doubtful effects of the causes of disease, or of 
methods of cure in its treatment, led to some practical 
conclusions that merit still further attention. 
I must here allude to what I have often spoken of in lec- 
turing; that is to say, the use of stimulants in disease. 
Admitting them of worth when wisely employed, I can, on the 
other hand, safely say, that they are had recourse to, mostly, 
when it is not known what else to do, and it is, undoubtedly, 
the impression of some, that stimulants can never be pro- 
ductive of ill results. Such has been the idea with reference 
to the treatment of pleuro-pneumonia. 
In saying that blisters “ irritate and do not lead to absorption 
of the material thrown out into the lung-tissue,” it is to be 
understood I was referring to what we daily witness in pleuro- 
pneumonia. In simple pneumonia of the horse, and other 
animals, I am in the habit of relying on mustard poultices* 
and blisters even more than is generally done, and thus I do 
* By mustard poultices, it must not he understood the rubbing of 
mustard and ammonia on the sides of the chest, but the absolute appli- 
cation of large poultices without ammonia. This leads to extensive sub- 
