^0 Inflammation of the Lungs. 



the means of cordial balls, and the drenching horn.' — In fact^ if Ihr 

 Veterinarian ever indulge solicitude on account of the animal's refusal 

 of food, in this disease, it will always spring from a principle per- 

 fectly distinct from that,, which usually distresses the attendants ; who 

 always fancy that the Horse must inevitably die, in all cases when 

 he will not eat, unless he be nourished (as their phra«e is,) in spite of 

 himself. But the chief, or rather the only solicitude of the Veterina- 

 ry Surgeon in this, and all other dangerous inflammatory diseases of 

 the Horse, arises, not from any apprehensions on the score of the 

 animal's want of appetite, but, is confined to the state of the pulse. — ■ 

 For, if this much exceed eighty strokes in a minute, there is always 

 danger, and if it rises to an hundred, the danger then becomes immi- 

 nent. So that if the pulse be found gradually abating in frequency, 

 we need not be under any concern about the animal's obstinate refu- 

 sal of food, although this should continue for thirty-six or forty-eight 

 hours, or even longer. And it may, perhaps, serve to abate the 

 ordinary anxiety on the subject of nourishment, if it be recollected, 

 that there are numberless instances of Horses dying, even with the 

 food in their mouths, — as it is by no means uncommon, for a sort of 

 depraved or morbid appetite to spring up on a sudden, in the latte? 

 stages of some diseases, (especially after delirium has come on,) and 

 just as the attendants begin to congratulate themselves on the appear- 

 ance of what they always consider ihe indisputable criterion of 

 "amendment, the animal puts an end to all further speculations on the 

 subject, by dying suddenly, whilst in the act of eating. 



Sometimes, indeed, it happens (though such cases are very rare) 

 that Horses will continue to eat mcdeiately, of their ordinary food^ 



