54 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



Sometimes we find symptoms of complicated in- 

 fluenza, By this term we mean horses with some 

 previous disease upon them becoming affected with 

 influenza, or else whilst suffering from an attack of 

 influenza it assumes a malignant, subacute form, 

 locating itself in some vital organ. In either case they 

 are dangerous, and will be found most difficult cases 

 to treat, They are intractable and often running on 

 to tuberculous lungs or effusion. Some of them are 

 not bad to diagnose. There are cases in which the 

 pulse is kept up by debility solely. These can be dis- 

 criminated and must not be mistaken for complicated 

 cases ; there is an unusually foul, clammy mouth, 

 offensive odour, dirty, yellow, buccal membranes and 

 conjunctive. You cannot by any means produce and 

 maintain healthy reaction ; the bowels are sluggish, the 

 fasces dry, hard, and coated, the secretions generally 

 suspended, the diseased organ will feel the full force 

 of the deficiency of animal electricity, and the result 

 in most cases is that parenchyma of the organ yields 

 to the putrid stage, and death, in from seven to ten 

 days, closes the scene. We will now examine this 

 question from another point of view, so that my 

 readers may have the fullest investigation into the 

 nature of influenza. We will follow our patient to 

 the knacker's yard and there make a careful post-mortem 

 examination, and what do Ave find ? In complicated 

 cases we meet with a great variety of disorganizations 

 and lesions, most extensive and dreadful alterations in 

 the structures, generally in the lungs, effusion of 

 lymph outside the pericardium, and fibrinous attach- 



