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some drugs on the temperature of the body. In the discussions 
following, Mr. Armatage guards against the confusion between 
the elevation of the temperature caused by drugs and that result¬ 
ing from certain diseases. There is elevation of temperature after 
exercise, after meal when the animal is at rest. 
The remarks of Mr. Armatage were published under the 
title: “The Thermometer as a Means of Diagnosis in Veterinary 
Medicine.” In that discussion Mr. Hunting called the attention 
upon the different indications furnished by two thermometers of 
the same make, a fact which may be a source of errors. 
The second article reproduces a paper from Mr. Poyser, upon 
the thermometry "in pleuro-pneumonia. It was only after Mr. 
Gamgee had recommended the use of the instrument in rinder¬ 
pest, that Mr. Poyser used it in pleuro-pneumonia. In both of 
these diseases there is an elevation of temperature, as in all in¬ 
flammatory diseases : but it is not so great in sporadic as in zym¬ 
otic diseases. According to Mr. Poyser, the thermometer is a 
sure aide-diagnostic to distinguish contagious pleuro-pneumonia 
from sporadic affections, with which it is often confounded. 
During the last period of the penetration of the virus in the 
economy, many changes take place: inflammatory fever gradu¬ 
ally appears, and during eight or ten days it seems to stimulate 
all the functions; the fever takes hold of the whole organism, as 
indicated by a slight increase of temperature. Though the cow 
feeds well, milks as usual and presents a normal temperature, 
there is a little bronchial irritation, characterized by a cough 
becoming daily more frequent. Mr Poyser doubts not, that, 
during that inflammatory stage, generally increasing, the animal 
lias accesses of chills indicating progress of the disease, which 
increases rapidly and in such a degree that at a given time the 
disease is recognized by everybody; only then is the veterinarian 
called. He then notices that the skin of the animal is dry. that 
he is agitated, anxious, that his respiration is accelerated, his pulse 
not full, as says Mr. Fleming, but small and frequent, eighty per 
minute, that the milk is reduced more or less, etc., etc. 
“ If,” says the author, “ one has the opportunity to examine an 
animal sixteen days before those signs are manifest, he will find 
