PNEUMONIC INFLAMMATION IN A MAKE. 
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The deathy coldness of the extremities in pneumonia is not con¬ 
tinuous in bronchitis; nor the restless anxiety, lying down, sudden 
rising, and kicking at the belly, as seen frequently in the pleuritic 
horse. The haggard countenance and apparent dread of suffocation 
in bronchitis are wanting in pneumonia and pleurisy; and the dis¬ 
inclination to move in pneumonia, with the sighing and twitching 
of the thoracic muscles in pleuritis, are not signs of bronchitis. 
[To be continued.] 
A CASE OF PNEUMONIC INFLAMMATION IN A MARE. 
By Mr. J. Igoe, V.S., Dublin. 
A THOROUGH-BRED mare, the property of a Mr. M-, was, 
on 26th March, sent to me to receive treatment. The gentleman 
gave me to understand that he lent her to a friend of his to ride 
into the country some few days previously, and she had been indis¬ 
posed, and unable to do any thing since. He imagined that' she 
received too violent exercise. A farrier in the neighbourhood was 
sent for, who, without much hesitation, bled her largely, and or¬ 
dered her sides to be well blistered. 
The gentleman thinking this treatment rather bold, as the mare 
was a delicate yet beautiful creature, would not allow the latter 
part of it to be put into practice, but sent for me. 
On examining the animal, I found her to be labouring under 
all the symptoms of pneumonic inflammation in a marked degree : 
pulse from 80 to 85—respiration accelerated, and about 44—the 
expired air extremely hot—cold, clammy perspiration over the 
body—extremities cold, &c. On the application of my ear imme¬ 
diately over the right side of the chest, I found a marked alteration 
in the respiratory murmur from the opposite one, where the sound 
was perfectly clear. To this sound I must apply the term mucous, 
as it pervaded a circumscribed portion of the lung, was perfectly 
audible, and seemed, as I imagined, to depend on the passage of 
air through the accumulated mucus in the bronchial tubes. 
As my patient had been already bled to a large extent, I did 
not consider it prudent to abstract any more generally, but deter¬ 
mined on doing so locally. Accordingly I scarified her right side, 
and applied the cupping vessels over the diseased part, and, after 
some time, I was enabled to abstract as much in that way as I 
thought necessary. I administered a laxative enema every fourth 
hour, until she was purged; and ordered the extremities to be well 
rubbed with equal parts of ol. terebinth, and ol. olivar. mixed, and 
flannel rollers to be afterwards applied. 
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