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THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
By J. Grellier, Esq., M.R.C.S. 
[Continued from page 120.] 
A rowel may be inserted under the chest, and turpentine may 
be used to foment the abdomen and fetlock joints, and to attract 
the blood to the extremities. For the same purpose, ligatures 
may be tied round the legs to prevent the return of blood : diu- 
retics may be also employed to determine the blood to the kid- 
neys. Mr. Coleman has procured a superficial inflammation 
under the chest, in which he has found very great success, by 
making an incision through the skin and inflating it with air. 
And if inflammation was not thus produced, he injected spirits of 
turpentine. 
It may be inquired, why stimulants are employed in a disease 
where the stimulus is already too strong? It is to be remarked, 
that the stimuli recommended are generally local, to attract as 
much blood as possible from the diseased part, while the gene- 
ral stimulus is lowered by bleeding. All medicines which act 
on a general scale of excitement, as cordials or purgatives, are 
absolutely forbidden ; and although diuretics may, in a small 
degree, increase the general stimulus, yet the good effects are 
more conspicuous from the quantity of blood attracted to the 
kidneys. 
The pleura is a membrane which covers the lungs and lines 
the cavity of the chest. An inflammation of this membrane is 
treated by authors as a separate disease ; but as the cause, symp- 
toms, and cure, are precisely the same as in inflammation of the 
lungs, it needs no further explanation. 
Another disease to which the lungs are subject is an obstruc- 
tion of the air-cells, generally termed thick wind. It frequently 
takes place after some slight inflammation or violent exercise, by 
which a quantity of coagulable lymph is forced from the smail 
mouths of the arteries terminating on the surface of the air-cells, 
which, coagulating, prevents the admission of air. If this ob- 
struction is of an extensive nature, the lungs will have the ap- 
pearance of scirrhus. 
The symptoms of this complaint are so common, that a mis- 
take can seldom occur. One of the principles which distinguishes 
it from a broken wind, is an equal difficulty in inhaling and ex- 
haling the breath, which is not the case in broken wind. 
If this complaint is attended to in its recent state, a cure may 
