136 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



THE MEMBRANE OF THE NOSE. 



This, in health, is of a light-pink color; in fever or 

 inflammation, it is red. If of the lungs or air-pas- 

 sages, it is more -deeply colored, and specked with 

 brown mucus. In the very last stage of most diseases, 

 when death is about taking place, the membrane of 

 the nose becomes of a dark, leaden, or livid color, with 

 specks of ulceration over it. In scarlet fever it is 

 covered with scarlet spots. 



THE EARS, 



in disease, lose their erectness and quickness of 

 motion, and become dull, loose, and fallen; falling for- 

 ward if the head is down, and backward if it is raised, 

 in all diseases affecting the system generally. The 

 ears are cold in inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy; 

 slightly so in other diseases, as colic, etc. 



THE EYES. 



Weeping of the eyes is observed in colds, strangles, 

 catarrhal fever, and glanders. When the eyes become 

 glassy in the advanced stage of disease, it indicates 

 that death is about to take place. 



THE MOUTH 



is hot in fevers and inflammations. The mouth and 

 tongue are clammy and offensive in severe colds. 



THE BREATHING. 



The breathing is rapid in fevers; laborious in inflam- 

 mation of the lungs; laborious, short, and catching in 

 pleurisy, and difficult in thick wind. The nostrils are 

 much spread in inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy. 



