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REPORT OF THE 
The cases of pleurisy and pneumonia which we observed, 
offered few complications; the character of acute inflammation 
which they exhibited being recognized, demanded the promptest 
treatment. We well know, however, that the people who have 
the management of horses are not aware that any thing can be 
wrong while the animal retains his appetite ; and, therefore, it 
happens that disease of the chest is often fatally developed and 
confirmed before the patients are brought to the infirmary; con¬ 
sequently many of them die between the third and fifth days. 
Those that were saved began to get well between the ninth and 
seventeenth days. Two of them could scarcely be said to be con¬ 
valescent before the 31st and 36th days. 
In many of these cases we have derived very great advantage 
from the use of immediate auscultation, and of percussion. 
Seven cases of phlebitis of the jugular vein came under 
treatment. Some of them were very serious, and had already 
produced a varicose state of the veins of the face. These in¬ 
flammations were, at length, cured by laying open the sinuses 
of the wound; yet not without some embarrassing circum¬ 
stances in the course of treatment; by the application of an emol¬ 
lient anodyne cataplasm during a sufficient time to remove the 
pain and tension of the tumour; and then by running a pointed 
iron, red-hot, for an inch at least along the thickened parietes of 
the vessel. 
One of these horses had a slight attack of apoplexy, and was 
convulsed, and fell in his stall: a bleedino^ from one of the sa- 
phenas and the application of refrigerants to the head relieved 
him. Some days afterwards one of the coagula, which filled a 
wound made by the cautery, having been detached, a trouble¬ 
some hemorrhage ensued: it was arrested by compression, 
the application of astringents, and a diet of gruel which needed 
not the use of the lower jaw. 
In another, the cauterization, a little too near the pharynx, 
caused an inflammation of that part, which lasted eight or ten 
days, and almost entirely prevented deglutition. During the 
whole of that time a pellet of hay, however thoroughly impreg¬ 
nated with saliva, could not be swallowed. The horse was kept 
on gruel, sopped bread,bruised oats,and then,by degrees, on chaff. 
