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the nostrils. The animal ex,presses great anxiety in his look, 

 and turns his head frequently and hurriedly round towards 

 his flanks, more especially to that side where the inflammation 

 has settled. He stands in a straddling manner, with his 

 fore legs generally considerably apart. He seldom lies down, 

 and when he does so it is but for a few minutes, remaining 

 for days on his legs. 



It does not, however, always happen that the premonitory 

 symptoms are the same, for in many cases inflammation 

 comes on slowly and in an insidious manner. Perhaps the 

 horse may be off his feed and his coat will stare ; his breath- 

 ing may be but slightly accelerated and abbreviated, with 

 the legs a little colder than usual. Sometimes inflammation 

 of the lungs is preceded by symptoms which are attendant 

 upon common fever, catarrh, or the distemper. In such 

 instances the true disease manifests itself in its full force 

 when the groom or master of the horse least suspects it. 

 The first manifestations are coldness in the limbs and ears, 

 accompanied by the flurried pulsation and anxious look, with 

 a seeming dread of lying down. This is soon followed by an 

 irregularity and indistinctness in the pulse, and extreme 

 coldness affects the legs and ears. The nostrils become livid 

 — he hardly seems to breathe — he grinds his teeth — and 

 these may be regarded as the too certain symptoms of disso- 

 lution ; staggering ensues, and he finally sinks in his stall. 



This last is a picture of that kind of inflammation of the 

 lungs which has lurked in the constitution without exhibit- 

 ing premonitory symptoms, and which in most cases proves 

 fatal. There are, besides, cases in which the disease is so 

 rapid that it will have undergone its entire stages in twenty- 

 four hours. In this short time the entire mass of the lungs 

 will have suffered complete destruction. Such a case has 

 been satisfactorily proved not to proceed from long and 



