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COULON AND OLIVIEK. 
35°. The temperature goes up to 39° and 39.5°. The pulse hard 
and bouncing, gives from 50 to 60 pulsations to the minute. 
Percussion shows evident dulness in the lower part of the chest, 
on one, or at times, both sides; and above this dulness, which 
occupies about the lower third or quarter of the lung, it is re¬ 
placed by the resonance. Upon auscultation, the respiratory 
murmur has disappeared and replaced by a moist crepitant rale, 
very often mixed with mucous rale. In the upper part the respi¬ 
ratory murmur is strongly increased. Appetite has diminished, 
but has not entirely disappeared; still animals began to lose 
flesh. 
The disease is well established and slowly progressing in its 
various stages. The respiration is more and more embarrassed, 
the pulse small, accelerated and weak, the temperature rises to 
40°-45°. The dulness increased upwards, involving the half, the 
two-thirds, or perhaps the entire extent of the lobe. The dulness 
as well as the resonance, is not defined by a regularly horizontal 
but on the contrary by an irregular line. Auscultation reveals on 
the dull portion a mixture of moist crepitant and sibilant rales, 
not always constant and easily displaced. 
It is important to observe that the moist crepitant rale is heard 
in the entire extent of the dulness as long as this exists ; it seems 
as if the engorged condition of the lung is never so complete as 
to prevent the access of air and prevent the vesicular murmur. 
The apparition of the symptoms requires some five or six days, 
though at times the disease assumes a more acute character, and 
two or three days only are necessary for their manifestation. In 
this more active form the pain from difficult breathing becomes 
more marked. Intermittent at first and heard only when the 
animal lays down, it soon becomes continued, loud and strong. 
Tubular breathing has also become manifest from the second or 
third day, at the large bronchial division. 
Sporadic pneumonia may terminate by resolution or asphyxia, 
the first being announced by the diminution of the febrile 
symptoms, improvement in the respiratory function, change in the 
cough, which becomes moist, abundant discharge from the nose, 
improved appetite, moist crepitant rale in auscultation, diminution 
