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both affefled. I fliall, in treating of both, enu- 

 merate the certain prognoflics; but cannot fo 

 far attempt an impofition upon the judgment 

 as to form a firing of imaginary fymptoms, 

 and fay (as fome have done) that *' he looks 

 *' to the right with the fleurify^ and to the 

 •* left with iht peripneu7nony y that he tries to 

 " lay down, then h^Jtarts up;" and a multi- 

 plicity of certainties equally curious. But as 

 MEN or WOMEN, labouring under the 

 moft acute difeafes, do not difplay the fame 

 attitudes, or indulge in ihcjame pofitions, no 

 more do the different animals of which we 

 now treat ; but there are other predominant 

 fymptoms, and certain prognoftics, that fuffi- 

 ciently enable us to afcertain the feat of dif- 

 eafe, particularly in the inflammatory diforders 

 before us. 



For inftance — the horfe is exxeedingly dull, 

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

 perpetually (hifting his legs alternately; the 

 fever comes on fuddenly, and increafes ra- 

 pidly; his breathing is extremely difficult, the 

 cough {hort and laboured, exciting great pain. 

 The mouth at firft is parched and dry; but 

 when a critical difcharge iffues from the nof-^ 



P 3 trils. 



