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almost immediately after the signs of general health show them¬ 
selves, signs which do not disappear if nothing comes to interfere 
with the course of the disease, until this has reached its complete 
resolution. 
I most advise veterinarians practising in raising districts, and 
all in fact, to practice that inoculation as a prophylactic mean of 
the complication of gourme, satisfied as I am, that by it many 
losses will be avoided. As to the treatment, I have nothing to 
say. It would require more than I intend for the present to give. 
Besides, the indications do not vary much, whether angina, bron¬ 
chitis or pneumonia are of gourmy nature or not. 
I will, however, call your attention to one point of internal 
therapeutics, in the treatment of bronchitis and pneumonia. 
Ordinarily this treatment has for its fundamental basis prepar¬ 
ations of antimony—tartar-emetic in doses of five or ten grammes, 
or kermes in doses of twenty per day are usually prescribed. This 
practice is sanctioned by years of experience. But can nothing 
better be done ? Some gathered observations have allowed me to 
decide in the affirmative. 
I have in the preceding pages shown that chronic roaring is a 
common sequel of bronchitis, and possibly also of pneumonia. 
My theory of its mechanism of production has suggested 
to me the propriety of adding to the accepted modes of treatment 
of these diseases, the internal administration of iodide of potassa, 
in rather large doses. 
In 1874, M. Zundel had already broached the idea that chronic 
roaring might be due to the pressure upon the inferior left laryng¬ 
eal nerve, by the lymphatic glands, enlarged at the entrance of the 
thorax , and then recommended arsenical and iodurated prepara¬ 
tions. 
As I was about publishing this paper, I received from him a 
letter stating that he had by this treatment obtained excellent 
results. 
I have myself, during several years, often given iodide of 
potassa, not as a curative, but only as a prophylactic agent. 
At first I gave it with the kermes or tartar-emetic for acute 
bronchitis ; I now give it alone, with no less success. Experience 
