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only a symptom of some other (the mere 

 effect of preternatural heat excited by ex- 

 treme pain) and not a distinct disease, stands 

 in need of no ehicidation ; let the original 

 cause be removed, and the effect will cease of 

 course. 



It has been repeatedly urged by authors of 

 repute, that every fever is one and the same 

 disorder, appearing differently according to 

 the various circumstances it meets with in 

 different constitutions. Much may be ad- 

 vanced iu favour of this assertion ; but, it 

 not being our present purpose to enter upon 

 the discussion of so extensive a subject, we 

 will contract it as much as the nature of the 

 disease will admit, and venture to affirm the 

 fever to which horses are most subject is that 

 distinct kind called inflammatory. To pro- 

 duce that preternatural heat or increased cir- 

 culation, constituting what is termed fever, 

 there must be some pre-existing cause, to 

 discover the true seat of which great nicety 

 of discrimination is unavoidably necessary ; 

 here is no information to be collected, but 

 by the hand and the eye\ the first should be 

 sanctioned by JUDGMENT and EXPE- 



