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manual of modern farmery. 
Remedies. —-The treatment for inflammation of the lungs 
must be immediate and decisive. As the disease is rapid, 
so also must be the means employed. Although its first 
symptoms may exhibit a mild character, yet we have seen 
how rapid they become in their after effects. To palliate 
it therefore would be absurd. Ample bleeding must be 
resorted to ; but the quantity of blood taken cannot be spe¬ 
cified, we must therefore look to its effects. He should be bled 
until his pulse begins to rise, and afterwards until it flutters, 
and the horse even faints from exhaustion. During the 
flow of the blood the pulse should be felt all the while to 
mark its progress. Five or six hours afterwards the horse 
should be examined, and if he still exhibits the symptoms 
of the complaint, viz., quick and laborious heaving of the 
loins, a stiffness in his attitude while standing, great coldness 
of the feet and redness in the membrane of the nose, 
bleeding must again be resorted to, and as amply as before, 
even until it is followed by the same state of exhaustion. 
Such treatment will generally have the effect of putting a 
stop to the disease ; although in obstinate cases even a third 
repetition may be necessary, but not to the same extent 
as before, as an exhaustion of the system may follow, and 
prove fatal to the animal. It is surprising how soon the 
blood which has thus been taken away will be restored. If 
after all this the cold symptoms still continue, it may be 
proper in two or three hours to take from one to two quarts 
of blood, so as if possible to rouse the action and prevent the 
inflammation from again returning. 
The state of the disease can be pretty well ascertained 
from the thickness of the blood and the huffy, orange- 
coloured appearance of the surface some hours after it has 
cooled and congealed. 
Should we have so far succeeded in mastering the com- 
