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overloaded, and nature, b}' an increase of 

 circulation in the velocity of the blood, en- 

 deavours to relieve herself from the oppres- 

 sion, which in this disease she so evidently 

 labours under. 



In respect to symptoms, the inspection 

 should be made with care and attention ; 

 the 2;eneral modes of inquiry are SUPER- 

 FICIAL, and the decision often FALLA- 

 CIOUS. The pathognomonic, or certain 

 si<rns, are an universal heat and disordered 

 pulse, a palpable disquietude and uneasi- 

 nes.^, sliifting from place to place ; the horse 

 labours under difficult respiration, his n:iouth 

 is very dry, his tongue parched and hot, he 

 declines food but receives water; sometimes 

 seizes his hay with seeming eagerness, then 

 drops it in disappointment ; the body is ge- 

 nerally costive ; and in the early state of dis-. 

 ease, there is a proportional obstruction of 

 urine. Let a fever proceed from whatever 

 cause, the indications of cure are still the 

 same ; diminish the preternatural heat to the 

 degree that constitutes its healtliy state, 

 remove all internal obstructions, and, by 

 a proper and judicious administration of 

 medicine (calculated to subdue the original 



