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PROF. DIECKERHOFF. 
1st. On the 5th of September a well-bred horse, nine years 
old, refused to eat. He was dull, depressed and tired. Mustard 
frictions were immediately applied on the sides of the chest. 
The next day he presented the following symptoms: General 
sensibility; depression; general stiffness of the extremities; yel¬ 
lowish-red mucous membranes; dry mouth ; pulsations, 48; 
respirations, 18 per minute; temperature, 39.9°; auscultation 
showed a diminution of the respiratory murmur in the lower third 
of the left lung. Brustseuche, under the form of pneumonia, was 
diagnosticated, and the patient received 100 grammes of bicarbo¬ 
nate of soda, 300 grammes of sulphate of soda, and an electuary 
of 60 grammes of gentian root. 
The next day all the symptoms had diminished in intensity, and 
on the 8th of September the respiratory murmur had returned to 
its normal condition all over the lung. 
2nd. September 14th a mare was taken with general symp¬ 
toms similar to those of the former case. By auscultation and 
percussion nothing abnormal was observed. The throat was 
tender, and a short repeated cough was present. She received 
nothing but grass up to the 16th, when she seemed entirely 
recovered. 
Two horses kept in the same stable exhibited similar symp¬ 
toms, and hygienic cures were found sufficient to bring them back 
to a healthy condition in two days. 
A similar affection made its appearance in two other stables, 
in animals which had previously been attacked with pferdes- 
taude or brustseuche. The same general symptoms appeared in 
each case, but the accessory varied with the patients, and both 
disappeared after from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. 
As before stated, the abortive form of the disease exists 
equally in the brustseuche of the horse as in the croupal-pneumo- 
nia of man. It docs not, however, seem quite rational to abso¬ 
lutely compare ephemeral pneumonia with brustseuche, because 
the first always assumes a very benign form, and very frequently 
presents itself in animals which have already suffered by the 
second. 
Some years ago, Dieckerhoff described another form of tem- 
