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ROSCOE R. BELL 
disease had been as great with me under one form of treatment 
as with another ; but upon the early exhibition of warm water 
heavily impregnated and vaporized with antiseptic and disin¬ 
fectant medicinal substances, improvement was rapidiy observa¬ 
ble, and during the last outbreak this was administered from the 
incipieiicy of the manifestations until the animal was a safe con- 
valescent. 
Kor the purpose of lung disinfection a special apparatus has 
been constructed—simple, cheap, and effectual. It consists of 
an upright cylindrical vessel, perforated with ventilating open¬ 
ings, to the side of which is attached an insulated handle. In 
this vessel is placed an alcohol lamp, which heats a bowl con¬ 
taining the solution to be vaporized, and to the top of which is 
screwed a brass exhaust tube, from which the steam is rapidly 
evolved. When the steam begins to escape from this tube it is 
held at a distance of about eight inches from the patient s nos¬ 
trils and is allowed to play constantly, becoming in traversing 
this distance sufficiently cooled for respiration. With each in¬ 
spiration this anti-microbic vapor is inhaled directly into the 
most minute ramifications of the bronchioles and air-cells, and 
through the lining membrane into the blood current, where it 
circulates in the same manner as the oxygen, which is taken in 
simultaneously. The choice of a disinfectant may be in ac¬ 
cordance with one’s preference, but I have found it best to em¬ 
ploy one which is not offensive nor nauseating. I have thought 
that Sanitas Fluid—not the crude—in the proportion of a table¬ 
spoonful to half a cupful of water acted best, being sufficient for 
one inhalation, requiring ten minutes, and repeated twice daily. 
Vapor of peroxide of hydrogen, carbolic acid, creolin, weak so¬ 
lution of bichloride of mercury, etc., may be preferred by some. 
Upon the same principle hygiene of the premises is of para¬ 
mount importance, isolation of the affected animals imperative, 
and the perfect disinfection of the stable by means of chlorine or 
sulphurous acid gas, washing all walls and floors with carbo- 
lized water, having been previously scrubbed with water im¬ 
pregnated with carbonate of soda. 
