TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA OF THE LUNGS IN HORSES. 
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In applying the solution an assistant is required that will hold 
the funnel at an elevation so that it can be inserted by gravity. 
All of this has to be naturally done under aseptic conditions. It 
is advisable to warm the solution slightly before injection, to 
receive a more rapid assimilation. I start my injections with 
200 cubic centimeters and gradually increase them to 500, 800 
and 1,000 cubic centimeters, according to the intensity of the 
pneumonia process, and then gradually decreasing the dose so 
as to avoid shock. The injections were made every other day. 
These injections, or more correctly infusions, are not accom¬ 
panied with any pain or swelling or abscesses. In the horses in 
group No. 1 with extensive lesions on both sides of the lungs, 
pleuro-pneumonia, with rusty discharge from the nostrils, tem¬ 
perature 103 to 105, pulse 80. The infusions gave very good 
results, for the extensive processes in the lungs and in the pleura 
were immediately arrested in their progress and in a short time 
were returning to the normal. I11 many cases after the second 
injection the appetite of the animals began to appear and the ani¬ 
mals also’ began to lay down again. The horses of the second 
group with both sides of the lungs affected without the pleura 
being affected, the results were even more marked and very much 
quicker. The dropping of the temperature in this group was very 
marked and the dull percussion sound of the lungs after one in¬ 
jection in the same day went over to the tempanitic sound, which 
sound returned to the normal. In the group that were slightly 
affected where the temperature was only I 02 j 4 to 106 and to 107 
with bronchials affected and tympanitic percussion and sensitive¬ 
ness of the intercostal muscles, one injection was all that was 
needed to pronounce the animals sound. It was very interesting 
to note that the injection of 1 per cent, of sea-salt solution in 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia seemed almost as a specific. In two 
cases where the patients had been treated with ail known remedies 
without results and the animals were losing ground continually 
and complications of a profuse diarrhea set in, after two injec¬ 
tions of 200 cubic centimeters each of sea-salt solution brought 
about recovery. 
