238 FEVER S. 



In refped to fymptoms, the infpcflion (liould 

 be made with care and attention; the general 

 modes of inquiry are SUPERFICIAL, and 

 the decifion often FALLACIOUS . The pathog- 

 nomonic, or ceitain figns, are an univerfal heat 

 and disordered pulfe, a palpable difquietude and 

 uneafinefsjihilting from place to place; the horfe 

 labours under difficult reipiration, his mouth 

 is very dry, his tonguv-^ parched and hot, he de- 

 clines food, but receives water; fometimcs feizes 

 his hay with feeming eagernefs, then drops it in 

 diiappointment: the body is generally ceftive, 

 and in the early (late of diieafe, there is a pro- 

 portional obftruclion of urine. Let a fever 

 proceed from whatever caufe, the indications 

 of cure are ftill the fame; diminifli the preter- 

 natural heat to the degree that conftitutes its 

 healthy ftate, remove all internal obflrudions, 

 and, by a proper and judicious adminiflration 

 of medicines (calculated to fubdue the original 

 caufe), all dependent fymptoms will certainly 

 fubfide. 



The firfl: necefiary ftep to a rectification' of 

 fuch inflammatory or difeafed ftate of the blood 

 is a redudlion in quantity, therefore inftantly 

 ^^^^^ according to ftrength and circumftances. 



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