THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXV, 
No. 293. 
MAY 1852. 
Third Series?, 
No. 53. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO VETERINARY PATHOLOGY. 
By Wm. Smith, M.R.C.V.S., Pottergate-street, Norwich. 
Pleurisy the Result of Neglected Cough. 
A GREY gelding pony, the property of a tradesman in this 
city, was sent to rny infirmary on July 28th, 1S51, for advice 
and treatment for a cough of some fourteen days’ standing. His 
pulse is natural; coat staring; nostrils dry. I am informed 
that he does his work as well and with as much spirit as usual, 
notwithstanding the cough is frequent. 
It appearing a case of ordinary catarrh, a cough ball was given, 
the throat stimulated, and the proprietor directed to discontinue 
working him for the present; to feed him on bran mashes and 
moistened hay, and to send him daily for medicine. He does 
not attend to these instructions, but sends him again on the 
29th, when the treatment is repeated, and I see no more of him 
until the 10th of August, when I met the owner driving him. 
He told me that, as his cough was much relieved after the me¬ 
dicine was given, he did not consider it necessary either to keep 
him from work or send him again for more medicine ; but as 
his cough had, within the last day or two, increased, he wished 
him to have cough medicine again. A dose was given the same 
evening. 
August 11 th .—He is sent again, the cough being reported 
worse. Blood is abstracted; the cough medicine repeated ; and 
rest strictly enjoined. 
12/A.—Medicine repeated. 
13/A.—Cough no better. He now refuses his food; on 
which account, and as I have reason to believe that he is not 
in careful hands, his owner being accustomed to drive him 
sharply and afterwards leave him standing still for some time 
exposed, without cloth or shelter, to draughts or cold, I took him 
into my infirmary. 
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