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Extracts from Domestic & Foreign Journals, Veterinary, Medical, 
Agricultural, Sporting, &c. 
Compte Rendu of the Proceedings of the Royal Vete- 
rinary School at Alfort during the Scholastic Year, 
1844-45. 
[Continued from vol. xix, page 583.] 
Pneumonia . — Treatment — Therapeutic Action of Emetic Tartar . 
12. TREATMENT. — The most certain and efficient way of 
treating pneumonia is by bleeding ; and this operation should be 
practised whatever may be the breed, age, temperament, or actual 
state of the patient — the degree of intensity which the disease has 
attained --the period at which it is observed — or the form which 
it takes on. In a word, under whatever circumstances pneumonia 
may develop itself in the horse, the first and most invariable 
course indicated is to bleed to an extent commensurate with the 
circumstances under which the disease manifests itself. 
13. This chief indication, predominating over all other treat- 
ment in pneumonia, is owing to the excessive vascularity of the 
pulmonary organs, they so readily becoming disorganized when 
gorged with blood, or infiltrated with the serous fluids emanating 
from it. Besides, the evacuation of the circulatory system gene- 
rally is the best way of re-establishing the pulmonary circulation : 
physiology assumes this fact, and practice demonstrates it. 
14. It is particularly at the onset of pneumonia that bleeding 
is found most efficacious and prompt in its action. The progress 
of the most acute attack may be checked by the abstraction of from 
15 to 20, 25, or even 30 measures of blood within a few hours after 
the disease has manifested itself. 
15. The quantity of blood it may be advisable to abstract at cer- 
tain successive epochs of the disease is indicated by the state of the 
pulse, the injection of the mucous membranes, the bodily strength, 
and the general state of the patient: in a word, it is defined and as- 
certained by such various kinds of examination as the practitioner 
has at his command ; but whatever may be the contra-indication 
apparently resulting from an observation of these signs, bleeding, 
even to a large extent, ought always to be practised when the 
disease is in its commencement. The weakness which follows, 
pulmonary congestion is often only fictitious. The animal powers 
