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and treat the symptoms as they arise. In the first stage I find 
great good in vesication, cantharides blister over region of 
chest. It has a tendency to abort the lesions and protect your 
patient from pleurisy. 
Support the patient’s strength with stimulants and tonics, 
say alcohol and quinine, or ammon. carb., gum camphor, 
gentian, ginger made into a ball with simple syrup. Equalize 
the circulation by blanketing ; bandage the legs ; allow a lib¬ 
eral supply of fresh water containing some nitrate of potash; a 
well ventilated, roomy box stall; good nutritious food of a laxa¬ 
tive nature, is the usual treatment for an ordinary case of 
pneumonia. In some cases during convalescence, the heart is 
weak and irregular; the patient should get heart stimulants, 
say digitalis, for in those cases there is a tendency to heart 
clot. 
While some cases do well on stimulants, others would do 
better on sedatives. This can only be governed by the symp¬ 
toms of the different cases. If there is a disease in the 
equine species that should be treated individually more than 
another, it is pneumonia. 
Thanking you for your kind attention, I will now submit 
my remarks to your criticism. 
VETERINARY HYGIOLOGY AND ANTISEPTICS. 
By Tiiomas M. Buckley, D.Y.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
A Paper read before the Long Island Veterinary Society. 
Mr. President and Members :—Being accorded the privilege 
and pleasure of reading before the Society this evening a paper 
on Veterinary Hygiology and Antiseptics, which, to say the 
least, can be but an apology, as it is by far too great and im¬ 
portant a subject to attempt to do anything like justice to on 
such a occasion as this. But increasing observation satisfies 
me that there remains a vast amount for us as veterinarians 
to accomplish in order to carry out hygienic conditions. 
Good quarantine laws should be enforced wherever and 
whenever an outbreak is discovered, and the present Bureau 
