236 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



Sy^nptoms. — The three principal and distin- 

 guishing symptoms of fever are, the great dis- 

 inclination to exercise, the almost total loss of 

 appetite, and the coat feeling dry and hot, and 

 generally rough also, about the ribs. There is 

 a peculiar soostiness all over the animal, but 

 no expression of pain. A direct cold fit some- 

 times first occurs, as with us, and this comes 

 on quite suddenly. The mouth is dry, the 

 breath foul, and the tongue pale. The pulse 

 may be quickened, or it may he weaker, or al- 

 most natural ; but, during the fit, the legs, like 

 the body, are more or less cold. When the 

 cold fit is over, a warm one frequently suc- 

 ceeds, and a slight perspiration. In this state 

 he remains, the fever often returning on the 

 following day, and near the same hour. He is 

 also generally flatulent, and the bowels are cos- 

 tive, but occasionally they scarcely at all alter, 

 and the difference of warmth in the feet, some 

 hot aiid others cold, often not at all remark- 

 able until the fever has existed some days : but 

 if at all thin before, the falling off in flesh and 

 great prostration of strength, will be clearly 

 manifest in forty-eight hours. 



Treatment. — During the first cold fit, (not 

 when the warm one has commenced,) if a quart 



