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lowing dose, repeated every four hours. Extr. belladonna 3j. 
Tinct. lobelia 3 ij. Spirits nitr. dulc. 3vj. Syrup simpl. §j. Mf 
drench. After the third day I adopted a stimulating course of 
treatment, which I followed up for about ten days: this consisted 
of two drachm doses of carborate of ammonia three times daily, 
after which time I administered one oz. doses of Fowler’s solution 
twice per day. The inhalation of warm vapors was kept up for 
fourteen days morning and evening. Application of mustard to 
the walls of the chest was also resorted to several times on 
Bill. 
In view of the extreme labored respiration that Dick dis¬ 
played on the fifth day, and considering his powerful physical 
condition, I administered a cathartic, which gave him considerable 
relief. / 
At the outset it was my zeal to have the patients removed 
from the contaminated atmosphere that they were quartered in, to 
some pure, well-ventilated stable, but it was impossible for the 
horses to make any kind of a journey without aggravating the 
disease; therefore I deferred the project from day to day until 
the necessity grew less, and finally dropped that part of the treat¬ 
ment. 
A perusal of my veterinary literature for analogous cases 
proved them to be very limited. I found but one instance, recorded 
in the Beportorium by Fry of Winterthur, where animals had been 
endangered and destroyed by the inhalation of heated air and 
wood smoke. In my patients the injurious agent was smoke ex¬ 
clusively, claimed by some to have been generated by the com¬ 
bustion of blue meadow grass, (poa pratensis latifolia) which 
was stored in the basement. This smoke must certainly have 
been cooled before reaching the equine department, through a 
door in the centre of the stable which had accidentally been left 
ajar. 
This foreign material set up an irritation and inflammation 
throughout the tubular structures of the lungs to their ultimate 
ramifications, by the deposition of carbonaceous material. Hot 
only were the lungs deranged by this morbid element, but it also 
created a hypersemia of the nasal, laryngeal and tracheal mucous 
