THE SYMPTOMS OF PLEURISY. 
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His ordinary drink must be prepared thus: melt two pounds 
of brimstone in an iron spoon, and, while it boils, throw it into a 
pail of water; then take out the brimstone, melt it again, and east 
it into the same water, which the sick horse must drink; for the 
water will retain the sweet and balsamic salt of brimstone, which 
is the balsam of the lungs. It is a most certain rule, that a horse 
should never be purged while he voids matter at the nose; for a 
purging medicine may throw him into this distemper, though he 
were free of it before. We must follow nature in the cure of 
diseases, and not compel her to change her course or to submit to 
one that is opposite to that which she has already taken, as pur¬ 
gatives is in tne present case. It is true, most farriers observe 
that method ; but I am fully convinced that it is very dangerous, 
and oftentimes fatal. Take four spoonfuls of strong vinegar, and 
as much good aqua vitae ; dissolve in them a drachm of treacle 
above two years old, and add a scruple of white hellebore in pow¬ 
der, and two grains of powder of long pepper; mix them alto¬ 
gether, and inject the mixture into the horse's nose, one half into 
each nostril; then w alk him in his clothes, at a foot pace, for the 
space of an hour, suffering him to snuff the ground with his nose, 
and he will infallibly cast forth abundance of matter. 
The Symptoms of Pleurisy. 
By M. Delafond, Preparatory Lecturer on Pathology in the Veterinary ‘ 
School of Alfort. 
M. Delafond presents the “Recueil de M6decine Veterinaire” with a 
long list of cases of acute and chronic pleurisy, and which he afterwards 
abridges in a very ingenious and useful way. Our readers will not be dis¬ 
pleased with his account of the symptoms of these yet scarcely recognised 
diseases. They will not, perhaps, agree with every statement, and some 
will appear to be not a little fanciful, but they will duly estimate the value 
of the paper: and they will do well to turn to the briefer, but yet more 
graphic sketch of Mr. John Field, in The Veterinarian, vol. ii, p. 118 . 
Pathognomic Symptoms of Acute Pleurisy . 
A. Commencement .—General rigor or shivering; skin cold; 
pains in the chest, which cause the animal to crouch or lie dow n 
and look at his flanks. These symptoms are followed by in¬ 
creased heat of skin, and sweating at the flanks and the inside 
of the thighs. Respiration more or less accelerated; inspiration 
alw ays short, sudden, unequal, interrupted or cut short; ex¬ 
piration more developed, irregular, and also cut short; the ex¬ 
pired air of its natural temperature; cough unfrequent, short, 
and also interrupted ; the artery full; pulse quickened, hard and 
