CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 311 
weight about one thousand pounds, was noticed dull, with 
oss of appetite for a few hours only before examination. 
r emperature, 104° Fahr.; pulse, about sixty per minute; 
>ody surface hot; sclerotic coat of eye intensely yellow; 
isible mucous membranes injected and yellow ; animal moved 
ardily as if weak, and lay down frequently and rested quietty on 
ternum ; there was a short, partly suppressed, hacking cough; 
iercussion of the chest showed all parts equally resonant, but 
ppeared abnormally dull ; auscultation revealed vesicular 
aurmur in every part, with no sound characteristic of pneu¬ 
monia, no pleural friction sound present, breathing slightly 
ccelerated. Quinine in large doses produced no impression 
n the temperature, neither could any effects be noted from 
he use of alcoholic or ammoniacal stimulants, the animal 
ppearing about the same as above recorded for a Aveek, her 
reathing gradually becoming worse, but the chest still res- 
nant alike all over, no evidence of thoracic pain, and the 
nimal continued to assume the recumbent position a large 
art of the time. Death ensued about the eighth day. Au- 
3 psy showed universal pleuritis Avith enormous exudate of 
loody serum, thickly mixed with fibrinous clots. The hydro- 
horax had been distributed over the entire pleural surface, 
'he lungs Avere normal, except the slight collapse seen at loAver 
)order, the result of pressure from the hydrothorax. Heart 
nd its coverings normal, heart contained a clot of fibrin. Liver 
reatly enlarged, estimated weight thirty pounds, bright yel- 
)w in color, the capsule smooth, shining, tense. The tissues 
f entire body tinged with yelloAv, otherwise healthy, except 
s detailed above. 
No. 2. A four-year roadster mare of about eleven hundred 
ounds Aveight, belonging to the same owner and kept in 
table with the abo\m. Sickened about ten days after death 
f preceding ; temperature, 106°; pulse, 60; appetite diminished 
ut fair ; breathing considerably quickened, pulmonary lesions 
ronounced. Treatment produced no visible effect on the 
ourse of disease, and at about the fourth day profuse diuresis 
A in, Avithout diuretics ha\dng been administered, after 
T hich she rapidly failed and died two days later. 
