BO YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
day I always commenced to expectorate, which would continue day 
and night for about three weeks ; the tumefied delicate tissues 
seemed to exude the phlegm, and from this moment I experienced 
some relief. Now it so happened I was attacked by acute asthma 
once when visiting some friends in Yorkshire ; 1 could scarcely 
breathe at all, and whilst gasping for life, the good people of the 
house commenced to burn paper and made me breathe over the 
fumes. In five minutes I experienced great relief. In twenty to 
thirty minutes the excitement and tumefaction of the bronchial tubes 
subsided, my distress was removed, and my breathing completely re¬ 
lieved. The paper had been prepared for a similar case ; it was 
simple blotting paper, saturated in a strong solution of nitrate of 
potass, and dried. On numbers of occasions when I have been so bad 
that one might have thought I was at my last gasp, I have rushed 
down stairs in my night dress, placed my mouth as near to the fire 
as possible, and by breathing the rarified air in three minutes I have 
experienced a sensible relief; in twenty to thirty minutes I was no 
longer distressed, and my breathing was entirely relieved. In thirty 
minutes these means have by themselves on many occasions produced 
more marked and lasting results than any medical treatment what¬ 
ever has ever given me in three weeks or a month. 
We will now bring the practical application of these theories to 
bear on our daily duties, for I hold it is a perfect waste of time for 
scientific men to make discoveries, or for veterinary surgeons to be 
at the trouble of compiling essays and reading them before large 
bodies of veterinary surgeons, unless they can be utilized, and 
brought to tell beneficially on our daily life. 
The first example I will give you will be the horses belonging to 
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Salford. The 
Company have from time to time been in the habit of converting 
arches into stables, and in one or two arches so converted about 
fourteen years ago almost every horse that was put into them 
was attacked with a very serious typhoid disease, in many cases 
ending fatally. It attacked new fresh horses, and also old, well- 
seasoned horses. The disease would run its course in fourteen or 
twenty-one days, always ending in vomicae in the lungs, and effusion 
into the chest. I had recourse to every known expedient to change 
the condition of these stables ; had the ventilation improved as far 
as practicable (I would remark here that no stable is properly ven¬ 
tilated unless it has two or more openings on the ground surface 
in opposite places, to admit a large volume of fresh air, and also a 
considerable opening at the top). The grids and soughs were 
taken up, perfectly cleaned, and put into thorough repair; frequent 
and thorough whitewashing, constant and strict attention to clean¬ 
liness, free use of disinfectants, even fumigations, not neglecting great 
care with the horses individually, were tried, but all to no use ; fresh 
horses keptfallingvictims,and thus it had becomea very serious matter. 
Oneday, whilst seriously revolving in mymindvarious schemesto check 
the ravages of the disease, feeling certain that it was caused by some 
poisonous malaria or organic germs in the stable, it forcibly occurred 
