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and cold, especially after fatigue, and appears (o me during some 

 of our springs, to be now and then epidemic. It is also frequently 

 produced by the use of coarse, drastic, aloetic purgatives, or by 

 injudicious treatment of the animal under the operation such as 

 are the mildest and most proper. Having already detailed the mode of 

 treating this species of Inflammation when it is produced by either of 

 the last-mentioned causes, I proceed to the consideration of the 

 means which are to be used, when it attacks Horses which have not 

 been subjected to the action of purgatives. The violence of the 

 symptoms in this species of Inflammation, is, hy no means, equal to 

 that which takes place in peritoneal Inflammation of the Bowels; and 

 when it terminates fatally, it almost always does so in consequence of 

 ending in the latter. In Inflammation of the villous ceat of the 

 Bowels, the pulse becomes materially quickened, rising frequently to 

 sixty or seventy, but it is never so quick, hard, small or thready, as 

 in peritoneal Inflammation. The skin is hot and dry, the breathing 

 is quickened, the Horse is dull and refuses his food, but his legs and 

 e^iTS are usually warm, contrary to what takes place in peritoneal In- 

 flammation, the mouth is also hot, and the animal appears restless, 

 but does not scrape or paw with his feet, and when he lies down he 

 makes no attempt to roll. More or less purging attends this disorder, 

 and the foeces are not only loose but generally offensive and slimy, 

 being sometimes mixed with a fat-like substance, which has obtained 

 the name of Molten Grease. But, though the danger to be appre- 

 hended from inflammation of the villous coat of the intestines, is 

 small, when compared to that attendant on peritoneal Inflammation, 

 yet, it becom.cs necessary to use proper means of relief for the ani- 

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