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IMPORTS ON THE INFLUENZA 
degree of intensity, and attended with great bronchial irritation. 
On dissection it appears that the right or left lobes of the lungs 
— I have observed the right to be more especially the seat of 
disease than the left — have the mucous membrane red to a 
greater or less extent, and with the appearance of a number 
of small red points, aggregated closely together. In other 
cases the lungs present an increase of weight and density ; they 
are infiltrated with a frothy serosity in some quantity ; the external 
surface is of a grey or violet colour; and these appearances 
indicate the disease to have been pneumonia. And again, we 
observe all the anatomical characters of pulmonary apoplexy in 
others, the lungs being of the degree of density of a hepatized 
lung, and the vessels filled with clotted blood. In many of the 
dissections a viscid mucus obstructed the bronchi® ; and the 
mucous membrane lining the bronchi®, trachea, larynx, and 
extending even to the pharynx, was found inflamed, and a 
frothy mucus was effused in these passages. The stomach was 
found healthy, and in the majority of cases filled with well- 
digested food ; the whole of the alimentary canal was perfectly 
healthy, and in very few was there any constipation observed : 
but where it did exist, the f®ces had accumulated in both the 
large and small intestines in large hard lumps, and evidently 
appeared, both before or after death, to have produced abrasion 
of the mucous membrane of the intestines. 
The liver was perfectly free from disease, and the gall-bladder 
filled with healthy bile; in some dissections I observed the gall- 
bladder very much distended with bile. The remainder of the 
abdominal viscera were healthy. The pelvic viscera also were 
healthy, and the bladder unusually distended with urine. 
Treatment. 
It is only in the first stage of the disease that remedies can be 
applied with almost any probability of success ; and as the first 
appearance of the disease is indicated by frequent sneezing — 
more particularly at night, and some time before any other of the 
more violent symptoms mark the invasion of the disease — it is 
at this period that I should recommend more particularly the 
treatment of the affected animals to commence; and no doubt 
at that time milder remedies will be more successful, before the 
inflammatory attack has advanced so far as to require severe 
treatment. 
In the first symptoms of the disease blood may be abstracted, 
according to the age and constitution of the animal, and re- 
peated, should the increase of the inflammatory symptoms seem 
to require it. After the venesection, a pint of lukewarm gruel, 
