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beer drenches should be given. There is no 

 disease in India, whether cold, fever, inflam- 

 mation, or any other, for which blood has been 

 abstracted, and whether the appetite is regained 

 or not, that tonic stimulants, of some kind, are 

 not beneficial afterwards ; and the beer tonic, in 

 proper quantities, is as good as any ; the danger 

 consists in commencing it too early. 



Inflammation of the Lungs is caused by sud- 

 den changes from cold to heat, rarely, it is said, by 

 the contrary ; by over riding ; by drinking cold 

 water when hot, &;c. It occasionally comes on 

 quite suddenly : at other times the horse may 

 have ailed a day or more previous to the attack. 



Symptoms. — Veterinary writers have fortu- 

 nately given us two symptoms, which mark this 

 disease so clearly, that by common attention 

 we can generally discover it : always, I may say, 

 if not _ complicated with any other disorder. 

 " The legs and ears are cold ; of a deathy cold- 

 ness ; and the horse persists in standing, or, if 

 he lies down, it is only for two or three minutes." 

 The pulse is oppressed, rising to seventy or a 

 hundred, and often imperceptible. The inside 

 of the corner of the nostrils becomes of a dark 

 crimson colour, the nostril itself being expand- 

 ed, and the breathing greatly distressed. He 



