tlie lower jaw, as being the most convenient place. The state of 

 the pulse tells the condition of the heart, whether the disease is 

 of an exalted or depressed character, or whether sickness is at all 

 present. The pulse is more frequent in young than in old animals. 

 In the full-grown and healthy horse it beats from thirty-two to 

 thirty-eight in a minute ; in the ox or cow, thirty-five to forty- 

 two; in the sheep, sevent}^ to seventy-five; and in the dog, from 

 ninety to ninet3^-eight. In inflammation and fevers the frequency 

 of the pulse is increased. In debility and depression it is slower, 

 but sometimes quicker than natural. There are the quick pulse, 

 the strong, the sharp, the regular, the intermittent, and many 

 other varieties, both fancifu'l and real, which few persons can ap- 

 preciate. The pulse of inflammation and fever numbers from 

 seventy-five to eighty beats in the minute; and in great debility, 

 as in the last stage of glanders, accompanied with tubercles of the 

 lungs, the pulse will number one hundred beats per minute. 



Breathing. 



A good-sized, healthy horse will take one inspiration to three 

 of the pulse beats. When the breathing is more frequent or 

 slower, and when irregular, or difficult and laborious, there is then 

 disease ; although we sometimes see the breathing quickened and 

 short, when no disease is present. Both the pulse and the breath- 

 ing will be quickened by exposure to heat, as a stable up-stairs, 

 and exposed to an August sun. By removing the animal to a 

 stable not so situated, the breathing and the pulse will be greatly 

 lessened. Hence the advantage of placing animals in a cool and 

 air}" place when they are unwell. It saves a great waste of their 

 strength and vitality, thereby enabling them to throw off the eff'ects 



of disease. 



Treatment of Disease. 



The antiphlogistic plan of treating disease was derived from a 

 theory now entirely exploded, and almost forgotten. Repeated 

 bleedings, blistering, physicking, and starving on low diet, are 

 some of the measures entering into the general plan which has 

 destroyed more life and property than all the wars, ancient or 

 modern. 



Bleeding, in domestic practice, is almost discarded, and in 

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