i7G MR. YOUATt’kS vkterinakv lectures. 
thirty-siK hours, three drachms of hellebore vvere administered. 
Twelve hours after the last dose he was found lying down—one 
minute extended upon his side, the next lying with his head 
raised up, puffing violently at the flanks, looking back at his 
belly, and pawing. The pulse had sunk so low that it could 
hardly be felt. An ounce of laudanum was given to him in 
gruel; he soon became tranquil; the respiration subsided, and 
he recovered. 
A blister is always indicated in bronchitis—it can never do 
harm, and it not unfrequently affords decided relief. It should 
extend over the brisket and sides, and up the trachea to the 
larynx. 
His food, if he is disposed to eat, should be mashes. No 
corn should be offered, nor should the horse be coaxed to eat. 
Bronchitis in Cattle. 
This is peculiarly the disease of cattle. Every minor inflam¬ 
mation of the respiratory passages seems to terminate in bron¬ 
chitis in these animals, as leg 
the horse. 
Cause .—The principal and sadly neglected cause is that 
winter cough, which cruel neglect generally produced, and which 
inattention and idleness have suffered to continue. Cough is so 
frequent in the cow-house, that neither the herdsman nor the 
proprietor takes the slightest notice of it. It is most frequent 
after feeding or watering, and it goes on for weeks and months, 
and no harm seems to be done; but, at length, the animal be¬ 
gins to lose flesh, and the milk diminishes. Then, and when it 
it is too late, the farmer begins to look about him. It is now 
confirmed bronchitis^ complicated with inflammation of the pa¬ 
renchyma of the lungs. The false membrane of which I have 
spoken in the horse lines the bronchial tubes—the inflammation 
of the mucous coat beneath is intense—the foundation is laid 
for consumption—the einimal becomes a mere skeleton; and 
they who are accustomed to cattle will understand me when I 
say, that the poor beast crawls about with merely a dry skin 
covering a set of creaking joints. 
The moment the cow with cough is in the slightest degree off 
her feed, she should be attended to; indeed, the simple fact of 
her having violent cough, should induce the farmer to adopt 
some remedial measures. She should be bled; a dose of physic 
should be given, and a few febrifuge drinks; she should be put 
in a sheltered comfortable place, and have a good mash given her 
every day. 
The prevailing causes of this inflammation of the bronchial 
ularly as it does in pneumonia in 
