294 ON PUERPERAL FEVER IN COWS, &C. 
There are also cold sweats, and staring of the coat. The mode of 
treatment must be, generally speaking, the same as in the horse. 
Pleurisy in Dogs. 
Cases of genuine pleurisy in these animals are not unfrequent; 
and I scarcely recollect a case of inflammation of the lungs, 
which did not ultimately become connected with, or terminate 
in, pleurisy. The tenderness of the sides, the twitchings, the 
absence of the obstinate sitting up, and the presence of a short, 
suppressed, painful cough, which the dog bears with strange 
impatience, are the symptoms that chiefly distinguish it from 
pneumonia. 
I stated in my last lecture, that the exploration of the chest 
by auscultation was most satisfactory in pneumonia. It is so 
likewise in pleurisy; and by placing the dog alternately on his 
chest, his back, or his side, we can ascertain to a certainty the 
extent to which effusion exists in the thoracic cavity. Here too, 
I am sorry to say, that paracentesis has rarely succeeded, and 
probably, in some measure, from the late period at which it was 
attempted. The mode of treatment differs little from that of 
pneumonia. In several cases, when I have been assured of 
incipent hydrothorax, balls composed of digitalis, tartrate of iron, 
and a small portion of calomel, have caused the speedy absorption 
of the fluid. 
ON PUERPERAL FEVER IN COWS—RED WATER- 
GANGRENOUS INFLAMMATION—AND THE STATE 
OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION AS IT RE¬ 
GARDS CATTLE MEDICINE. 
Bi/ Mr. Friend, US'. Walsall. 
The favourable notice taken of my first paper in The Ve¬ 
terinarian induces me again to address you. I have chosen 
the diseases of cattle, simply because few seem disposed to ten¬ 
der you their services in that much neglected department*; and 
still hoping that it may, at least, serve to draw forth some re¬ 
marks from others of the profession, and that, in the collison of 
opinions, truth may be elicited. 
As one disease, frequently fatal in its consequences, and com¬ 
mon alike to all counties, I shall begin with puerperal fever in 
cows, the most frequent symptoms of which were detailed in my 
last communication : but as these vary in different cases, I shall 
first notice that state of the disease which seems to indicate that 
* I am very happy to acknowledge this does not apply to the May number. 
