Symptoms Of Acute Pneumonia

Commence with shivering, without spasms. Inspiration full; expiration short; air expired hot, Nostrils red in the interior. Cough generally violent, with expectoration of rusty mucus, not very profuse. Pulse quick, full, and soft.

The Stethoscope gives a crackling sound in the early stage, followed by increased dullness, and, finally, by crepitating wheezing.

Percussion gives after the first stage a dull return to the finger.

Disease Terminates in resolution, with cessation of the bad symptoms; or in solidification, called hepatization ; or sometimes in abscess of the lung.

Symptoms Of Chronic Pneumonia

Inspiration and expiration both difficult and interrupted. Cough present, but not frequent, and evidently avoided and suppressed. Expectoration rarely profuse; sometimes absent.

Stethoscope indicates hepatization, from the entire absence of murmur.

Percussion also gives a very dull return to the fingers. Sometimes there is a mucous rattle.

Terminates sometimes in resolution; or, if fatal, in a discharge from the nostrils of purulent matter, coloured with blood, and often very fetid. The animal never lies down at length, but sits up on his hind legs.