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heat excited by extreme pain) and not a diftind; 

 dlfeafe, flands in need of no elucidation; let 

 the original caufe be removed, aad the effedl 

 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 circum.ftances 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 

 fo extenfive a fubjed, we v^ill contract it as 

 much as the nature of the difeafe will admit, 

 ^nd venture to affirm the fever to which horfes 

 are moft fubjed: is that diftinft kind called in- 

 flammatory. To produce that preternatural 

 heat or increafed circulation, conilituting what 

 is termed fever, there mufl be fome pre-exift- 

 ing caufe, to dlfcover the true feat of which 

 great nicety of difcrimination is unavoidably 

 neceffary; here is no information to be col- 

 lected but by the hand and the eye, the firft 

 fhould be fandioned by JUDGMENT and 

 EXPERIENCE, the latter regulated by REA- 

 SON and OBSERVATION. 



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