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each^ no inconvenience can arise from not de- 

 cisively fixing it upon one or the other, as in 

 general they are both affected. I shall, in 

 treating of both, enumerate the certain prog- 

 nostics ; but cannot so far attempt an im- 

 position upon the judgment as to form a 

 string of imaginary symptoms, and say (as 

 some have done) that ''^he looks to the right 

 '^ with \he pleurisy , and to the left with the 

 '^ peripneumony \ that he tries to lie down, 

 '' then he starts up \' and a multiplicity of 

 certainties equally curious. But as MEN or 

 WOMEN, labouring under the most acute 

 diseases, do not display the same attitudes, 

 or indulge in the same positions, no more do 

 the different animals of w^hich we now treat ; 

 but there are other predominant symptoms, 

 and certain prognostics, that sufficiently en- 

 able us to ascertain the seat of disease, par- 

 ticularly in the inflammatory disorders be- 

 fore us. \ 



For instance — the horse is exceedingly 

 dull, heavy in the eyes, drops his head, is 

 restless, perpetually shifting his legs alter- 

 nately ; the fever comes on suddenly, and in- 

 creases rapidly ; his breathing is extremely 



