306 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
We must bleed even more copiously than in the horse, and until 
the animal is more evidently affected. The same sedative medi¬ 
cine should be administered, but in smaller doses; but pur¬ 
gatives are here admissible, and highly useful. We have in the 
Epsom salts one that is sure and not irritating; and probably, on 
account of the interposition of such a mass of cuticular surface 
as the three first stomachs contain, there is not the sympathy 
which we observe and lament in the horse : the liver, being in 
contact with the diaphragm most, and sometimes alone, partici¬ 
pates in the inflammation. Also, as I have observed when 
speaking of other chest affections in cattle, setons in the dewlap 
must supersede the blister:—the skin of the ox is too thick and 
insensible for the blister to produce its proper effect. These 
setons may be made to produce irritation and engorgement enough, 
if the root of the black hellebore is used instead of the cord. 
Lrftammation of the Lungs in Swine. 
The rising of the lights, the popular term for inflammation of 
the lungs in the swine, is one of the pests of the stye. I am not 
aware that it is contagious, and yet in a distillery it sometimes 
destroys a fourth of the hogs in the course of a few weeks. Some 
atmospheric agency produces a tendency to pneumonic com¬ 
plaints ; and the forcing system which is adopted in the styes 
speedily gives, to that which would otherwise scarcely run be¬ 
yond catarrh, a character of intense and fatal inflammation. The 
distressing cough, the heaving at the flanks, and the refusal of 
all food, will be chief indications of the disease. Bleeding will 
be immediately resorted to—purging, but cautiously attempted : 
the Epsom salts wall be the safest aperient; and .then the seda¬ 
tive medicine, already recommended, will follow, but with the 
substitution of the antimonial or James’s powder for the emetic 
tartar. Two grains of digitalis, six of antimonial powder, and 
half a drachm of nitre, will be a medium dose. The disease will 
often run its course with an intensity and fatality only equalled by 
the inflammatory fever of cattle; our measures must therefore 
here likewise be prompt. The phthisis, or consumption, which 
is the too frequent termination of the disease, even when the 
animal weathers the first attack, can be combated only by clean¬ 
liness and warmth, and mildly nutritious food. 
Inflammation of the Lungs in Dogs. 
The complaint, although not frequent, is here singularly 
marked. The extended head—the protruded tonguc^the 
