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TABLE OF THE DIAGNOSTIC SYMPTOMS OF 
murmur will not be heard, while the opposite side will afford a 
clear resonance and a distinct murmur. Cough is rare, always 
small and weak, and without expectoration; the pulse small, 
hard ; in a very few instances, however, soft. All the symptoms, 
except those furnished by exploration of the chest, will display a 
remarkable exacerbation at night, and constituting the fever im¬ 
properly known among us by the term hectic. 
In the larger animals, and especially those of a lymphatic tem¬ 
perament, the legs frequently swell, oedema appears, and slowly 
spreads under the chest; it sometimes reaches the belly, and 
advances even to the scrotum. At this period especially exercise 
renders the respiration laborious, and the animal is compelled to 
stop, from a feeling of suffocation. The side in which is the effu¬ 
sion is perceptibly rounder than the other, and it does not always 
sensibly contract when the fluid has been re-absorbed. The fluid 
never, as has occurred in the human being, opens for itself a way 
of escape by penetrating' through the intercostal muscles. 
F. Pneumothorax. —While any gas is associated with the 
effused liquid, its presence is betrayed by a strong resonance on 
one or both sides of the chest, and this without any respiratory 
murmur or crepitating sound. There is evident bubbling of a 
liquid, with a succession of pectoral sounds, known in human me¬ 
dicine under the names of the metallic ring, and the cask-like 
sound (respiration amphorique.) 
A complete Table of the Diagnostic Symptoms of Pleurisy and 
Pneumonia . 
ACUTE PLEURISY. 
Commencement of the in¬ 
flammation. —Shivering, gene¬ 
rally accompanied by light 
colicky pains, and followed by 
general or partial sweating. 
Inspiration always short, un¬ 
equal, interrupted; expiration 
full; air expired of the natural 
temperature. Cough unfre- 
quent, faint, cut short, and with¬ 
out expectoration. Artery full. 
Pulse quick, small, and wiry. 
(AuscuUation,) Respiratory 
murmur feeble, or accompanied 
by a slight rubbing through the 
ACUTE PNEUMONIA. 
Commencement of the in¬ 
flammation .—General shiver¬ 
ing, rarely accompanied by co¬ 
licky pains, followed by partial 
sweats at the flanks and the 
inside of the thighs. Inspira¬ 
tion full, expiration short. Air 
expired hot. Cough frequent, 
hard, frequently followed by- 
slight discharge of red-colour¬ 
ed mucus. Artery full. Pulse 
accelerated, strong, full and 
soft. 
(A uscultation.) Absence of 
respiratory murmur in places 
where the lung is congested ; 
