PNEUMONIA-FRENCH SCHOOL. 
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system in a very common form, viz. swelling of the legs—one, 
or two, or all. A single bleeding and one dose of physic fails 
in subduing this; and he is again put to work. Work aggravates 
the malady, and it turns to farcy. As far as the cold’^ is con¬ 
cerned in the question of returnability, the horse having had it 
on him at the time of purchase, the warranty, I should imagine, 
was qualified accordingly. The horse, in my opinion, is cer¬ 
tainly not returnable on account of the swelled leg, because it 
evidently was nothing more than one of the commonest effects 
of such a change as this animal, and at such an age, underwent: 
and as for the farcy, that seems to be ascribable to one of two 
causes, or possibly to both of them. Either the animaTs habit or 
predisposition was such as tended rather to unhealthy than 
healthy inflammatory action on the application of the exciting 
cause; or else the aggravation induced by w^ork, in a limb already 
or so recently in an inflamed condition, brought on farcy ; the 
same as w^e often see glanders induced in coach horses, and 
occasionally in hunters, from over work. In either case the 
horse, I should say, most decidedly is tiot returnable on the score 
of the farcy.”—A Practitioner. 
Pneumonia—French School. 
\^Extractedfrom Vatell's Elements of Veterinary Pathology. 
Inflammation of the pulmonary tissue, that is to say, in¬ 
flammation comprehending the ultimate ramifications of the 
bronchial passages, the bloodvessels which spread over them, 
and mingle with them and the cellular tissue which connect the 
wFole together, almost always commences in the pulmonary 
mucous membrane, whence it is communicated to the surround¬ 
ing parts. 
The causes of this affection are analogous to those of bron¬ 
chitis. 
It is recognized in the horse by the following symptoms :—At 
the commencement there are alternations of hot and cold ; labo¬ 
rious respiration; the expiration is incomplete, short, and pain¬ 
ful ; disinclination to move ; instinct induces the animal to keep 
on his legs, in order to avoid the pain which he would feel were 
he to lie down; the fore legs are wide apart; there is a cough 
more or less frequent and painful; the expired air is hot; the 
pulse generally round, full, and frequent, without, however, be¬ 
ing hard ; but sometimes soft, depressed, and irregular. 
