166 FETE*. 



SYMPTOMS IDIOPATHIC or SIMPLE FEVER gen- 

 erally begins with a cold, shivering chill, or repeated 

 chills, although this is not essential, or may readily 

 be overlooked. The horse is dull, unwilling to move 

 has a staring coat, and cold feet and legs. This is 

 succeeded by warmth of the body; unequal distribu- 

 tion of warmth in the legs ; one hot and the other 

 three cold, or one unnaturally warm and the others 

 unusually cold, but not the corpse like coldness of 

 inflammation of the lungs ; the pulse is soft, quick, 

 and often indistinct ; the breathing somewhat labor- 

 ious ; but no cough or. pawing or looking at the 

 flanks. The animal will scarcely eat, and is very 

 costive. While the state of pure fever continues, 

 the shivering fit returns every day at nearly the same 

 hour, and that is succeeded by a warm one, and that 

 often by a degree of perspiration ; and these may 

 alternate for several days until local inflammation 

 appears or the fever subsides. 



No horse dies of pure fever. If inflammation of 

 the lungs, bowels, or feet does not set in, he will re- 

 cover. 



Symptomatic Fever is the result of some local in- 

 flammation or disorganization, or the result of in- 

 jury, wound, etc. No organ or part can long seri- 

 ously suffer without bringing the system into sym- 

 pathetic suffering, which generally manifests itself by 

 irritative fever, which of course disappears when the 

 local irritation is removed. 



