92 JnJKimmation cf the Lmgs, 



in the stomach of the animal; (on which circumstance ^reat stress 

 was laid) so that nothing^ now was wanting, but a smart trot which 

 was to finish the cure^ and place the laurel on the brow of the 

 jphysician. Rut alas ! there was aaiother of the Dramatis Person je 

 ready take a part in the piece, (which was enacting before a crowd 

 of admiring spectators) whom the doctor never dreamt of ; for at the 

 very moment that the animal was urged into a trot, death stepped 

 upon the stage, and ordering the curtain to be dropt, the farce was 

 orer in an instant. 



To return, however, more expressly, to the subject of nourish- 

 ment — It must be acknowledged, that the obstinate refusal of food 

 for a great length of time, is an alarming symptom, inasmuch, as it 

 is, almost always, connected with the existence and progress of those 

 diseases which are highly inflammatory, and which have, conse- 

 quently, a dangerous tendency. And though, as I have before re- 

 marked, the Veterinarian will not be very solicitous about it, from 

 any apprehension that the animal will die of starvation, he 

 will, nevertheless, hail the return of appetite, as an almost certaiu 

 harbinger of returning health. Nor need there be any great cir- 

 cumspection used, as to the quantity of nourishing food that is 

 given to Horses, recovering from dangerous diseases, so as they 

 take it voluntarily ; more especially in the cases of such as have 

 been largely and repeatedly bled, and have, moreover, been sub- 

 jected to the other parts of the severe medical discipline, that has 

 been recommended in this disease. 



For it almost never happens, that the animal is inclined to eat 

 more than will be proper for him, and I have never once witnessed 

 an instance of a relapse, occuring in an inflammatory disease, that 



