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heat excited by extreme pain) and not a diftind: 

 difeafe, ftands in need of no elucidation ; let 

 the original caufe be removed, and the effedt 

 will ceafe of courfe. 



It has been repeatedly urged by authors of 

 repute, that every fever is one and the fame 

 diforder, appearing differently according to the 

 various circumftancea it meets with in differ- 

 ent conftitutions. Much may be advanced in 

 favour of this affertion ; but, it not being our 

 prefent purpofe to enter upon the difcuffion of 

 f© exteniive a fubjed, we will contract it as 

 much as the nature of the difeafe will admit, 

 and venture to affirm the fever to which horfes 

 are moft fubjed: is that diftindt kind called in- 

 flammatory. To produce that preternatural 

 heat or increafed circulation, conftituting what 

 is term.ed fever, there muft be fome pre-exifl- 

 ing caufe, to difcover the true feat of which 

 great nicety of difcrimination is unavoidably 

 neceffary -, here is no information to be col- 

 lecfied, but by the ba?id and the eye ; the firfl 

 fhould be fandioned by JUDGMENT and 

 EXPERIENCE, the latter regulated by 

 REASON and OBSERVATION. 



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