The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30

| country, Iney are worse IMAM useless. AS q
rule the malady battles the skill of the most
learned veterinary practitioners, frequently
attaining its greatest mortality where most
they have combated it.
Nevertheless, as there may be circumstances
under which partial relief might be afforded
by timely remedial agents, it Is deemed expe-
dent to give. in this place the treatment which
in general has been found most efficacious.
The course most obviously to he pursued,
| when the slightest symptom of the disease is
observed, or where the slightest cause for
suspicion exist is to apply the thermometer,
to separate at once every suspected animal
from the rest, to use disinfectants, to adopt q
new diet, and to watch carefully for further
developments. The weight of testimony is
against bleeding. II constipation is detected
it should lie removed by moderate dose of
salts. Slight diarrh9a need not be checked
but when violent use mixture of gallo acid
tor its equivalenD and cruel, one-half ounce
of the former to onehalf pint Of the latter,
or else onc-half ounce powered alum to
one quart of milk Sometimes there is con-
siderable swelling or bloating of the stomach
which may be removed by carbonate of am
mOnia--one ounce in moderate quantity of
cruel, repeated if necessary. To lower the
temperature and ease the breathing give acid
sulphite of soda one ounce twice day. In
one or two ounces of whisky or of oil of tur-
pentine every three or four hours. Ifno relief
is observed employ copious warm water mice
tions and give two or three times day an
ounce of carbonate of ammonia in quart of
linseed-tea. Although out of place in the acute
stage of the disease blister, setons, rowes and
cauterzaton may be applied in some cases to
advantage after the fever has abated. Several
preparations of carbolic acid have been tried
with more or less success Perhaps the best
is
Pure carbolic acid, drachm;
Water pint;
give at dose, three times day.
Convalescence begun restoration to health
will be fastened by giving teaspoonful Of
sulphate of iron in the food at each meal
The herd itself from which the sick have been
removed should be placed, as possibly pre-
ventive measure, on daily doses of the same
preparation (sulphate ofiron,) allowing about
half drachm to drachm per capita mixed
with an equal amount of coriander seeds
given in meal or bran the better to disguise
the iron.
A post-mortem examination ofthe chest gen
orally reveals layers of yellowish friable false
membrane covering skim stretching across
and around the sack containing the heart
With them is found yellowish clotted fluid
solid deposit. Diseased portions of each or
both lungs are found adhering to the men,
brane of the ribs and diaphragm, from which
there is more or less difficulty in detaching
them The membrane covering the lungs,
usually smooth and glistening, is rough and
notified with number of more or less marked
pimples or warta.
The fluid around one or both lungs varies
from q few ounces to several gallons. At
times it is tolerably clear when warm, and
gelatinizes on cooling; at others it is difficult
to separate it from the shreds Of lymph and
false membranes in which II is held. Pus cells
often abound in it, and it assumes in some
cases the character of pus, from which an in
tolerable stencil sometimes proceeds.
On removing the lungs the essential appear
ance of the disease in all cases will be found
uniform, although differing considerably in
extent.
In recent and mild cases in which only one
lung is affected the surface of the lung may
be smooth; parts of it collapsed, as in health,
with the normal pink color preserved. The
affected part is swollen, hard, and mottled.-
On cutting into this, the older diseased por.
tions present very peculiar marbed appear
ance The substance of the lobules is solid
and of dark red color, and the tissue between
the lobules is of a yellowish-red, more or less
most pure yellowish- white color. The more
recent deposits are distinguished mainly by
lighter red color of the thickened lobules.
AT a more advanced stage of the disease the
lung will be found harder and of darker color,
its tissues having lost portion of the marbled
appearance, the blood-vessels INSTRUCTED, and
showing how nourishment had been cut off
from the lungs, while the older, darker, and
more solid portions of the latter have become
detached, so that they remain as foreign bodies
imbeddedi in the cavities, by dissolution OF the
lung tissue. The admission of air into these
cavities, by dissolution of the lung tissue, pro.
duces the Cavernous sounds which the ear can
detect in the living animal.
On taking warm diseased lung, severing
the still healthy portions, making missions
into the parts solidifed, and suspending them
so that they may drain, large amount Of
yellowish serum of translucent character,
and varying greatly in weight, is obtained
The quantity of this serum, and of the solidi-
fled deposit in the diseased lung is so large
| that, from normal weight of four or five
pounds a lung attains ten, twenty, forty, or
even fifty pounds.
The condition of the air-passages will be
| found to vary from one OF perfect freedom in
| the healthy portions of the lung to a state in
which the mucous surface is coated with false
LlclllUItHt, VI EOlltl thuNtutiOhp vi
the diseased parts These passages are some
times found nearly filled, throughout their
whole extent, with deposit similar to that
usually found on the surface of the diseased
lung
| The hearts sack is sometimes found to be
thickened by deposits around it, and not I'M
frequently to contain an excess of serum
The heart itself is contracted and pale, con-
tanning little dark blood.
| The organs of digestion at different stages
manifest state of dryness. The third
stomach, which is SO constantly packed with
dry food in febrile diseases, is in the same con-
dition in pleuro-pneumonia. In advanced
cases there is found more or less ditfuse red
ness, and even etfusion of blood in the large
intestnes, with fluid, fetid, and sometimes
slightly blood-staihed eXcrement, such as is
discharged in life.
Such briefly, and in language free from
technicalities, are the description, cause, symp-
toms, treatment, and post norton appear
ances of pleuro- pneumonia as gathered from
previous publications of this department and
other recognized authorities.
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HE DIDN'T Observation-Disclosures
David Tod, of Ohio, was confirmed punster
and humorist. In early life he was cord
wood chopper in the employ of the Mahoning
Iron Company, of Ohio. He arose gradually
cro,, tb;o noaition IN he Governor of the State