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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Dr. Morse : I would like to know if mustard or other 
counter-irritants are useful when applied to the sides ? 
Dr. Edwards: I doubt their utility. 
Dr. Miller: I find aconite and mustard useful in the first 
stages only. 
Dr. Platt: I do not think exposure to cold is necessary to 
the development of pneumonia. I have seen cases develop in 
harvest time. I believe it depends on a contagion. I treat 
these cases in the first stage by covering with blankets wrung 
out of hot water, which are again covered with dry ones, the 
wet blankets to be reheated as required. Some cases recover 
under this treatment. 
Dr. Cr. A. Johnson: Oases of pneumonia caused by the 
presence of medicine in the lungs always die for me; and 
cases complicating or following influenza are nearly always 
fatal. In ordinary cases I use the following mixture : 3 1 fl. ex. 
aconite, 3 1 fl. ex. belladonna, 3 2 alcohol; give 13 at fre¬ 
quent intervals upon the tongue until the heart is controlled. 
I favor the use of heat applied to the chest walls and use 
sacks of heated salt. 
Di. Campbell: Since Dr. Morse asked the question, I re¬ 
member ol several instances where cases of pneumonia devel¬ 
oped soon after the horse was put into a stall previously oc¬ 
cupied by a horse sick with pneumonia. I am satisfied a stall 
will retain the infecting agents of this disease, and such stalls 
should be thoroughly purified before being used again. 
The Secretary : I am very much interested in Dr. Edwards’ 
paper, and the discussion which you have given it. You do 
not seem to dwell much on the symptoms, and are nearly 
agieed as to cause, and like myself are more interested in the 
treatment. My first experience in the treatment of pneumo¬ 
nia was very unsatisfactory. I lost all my cases. 1 thought 
the bounding pulse and hurried respiration indicated a seda¬ 
tive, and I used aconite in frequently repeated doses, which 
subdued the heart s action, but when the crisis came my pa¬ 
tient’s strength faded away, and death resulted. 
Experience taught me that the throbbing heart and labored 
respiration were nature’s effort to overcome the disease, and 
