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should be guided by the quantity drawn. This is a rule of an erro¬ 
neous nature, and one that should not be practised. It is to the 
effect produced on the arterial system that we must look for bene¬ 
ficial results to accrue, and not from any specific quantity abstracted. 
There is no disease in the horse, that I am acquainted wdth, of 
more frequent occurrence than the present; nor do I know of any so 
often coming under the hands of empirical farriers; and as bleed¬ 
ing is their grand antidote in this as well as other affections, whether 
they are inflammatory or not, I do not hesitate to say that, by ex¬ 
cess in this operation many a valuable animal has fallen a victim 
under their ruthless hands. 
I find the utmost advantage to be derived from the topical use 
of cupping vessels; and in the administration of tartar emetic I 
am induced from experience to believe that small doses—say half 
drachm doses, given at short intervals, perhaps, of three or four 
hours—to be a much better and more successful practice than larger 
ones at more remote intervals. 
In this case hepatization did not take place at all. This I am in¬ 
clined to think was owing chiefly to the prompt measures I adopted 
from the period the animal was sent to me. As she daily im¬ 
proved, in the same ratio I found a marked alteration from the 
abnormal to the normal condition of the lungs, until resolution had 
ultimately taken place. The crepitous rale of Laennec was well 
marked; a matter of no small surprise to me, as in the majority of 
instances it is not distinctly audible : but here, in proportion as the 
inflammation subsided, it became less intensely audible, until it 
finally disappeared. In this instance percussion afforded me no 
signs for diagnosis. 
This case is not sent as an illustration of any new method of, 
treatment—and perhaps there is nothing of particular interest in it— 
but merely as a contribution to a class of diseases of a very im¬ 
portant character, and that have been little known hitherto. I 
trust, however, that the period is not far remote when we shall be 
able to diagnose diseases of the chest in the animal body with as 
much accuracy as the great founder Laennec has been able to do 
in the human system. 
This branch of veterinary science has not been cultivated much. 
There remains still a vast field for inquiry, and one that I perceive 
has not been overlooked by some of our brethren, whose fostering 
care has often advanced the interest and well-being of a science 
that has made such rapid strides of late years, in order to attain 
the justly merited position which it at present holds. 
