5G The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



stracted in the one case, as is abstracted in the other. 

 There is no doubt whatever that in those cases struck by 

 lightning, they are instantaneously and completely 

 deprived of animal electricity, and the function of vitality 

 ceases at once. Influenza is only a modified form of this 

 very phenomenon ; the one is instantaneous and com- 

 plete, the other gradual, imperceptible, and incomplete, 

 fortunately affording an opportunity at this important 

 and critical juncture for the prudent surgeon to step in, 

 and by the employment of wise and well-considered 

 treatment, to fan the flickering flame of life until Nature 

 rallies, reaction is established, and life saved. I now 

 approach the most important part of my subject, the 

 treatment of complicated and simple influenza. In all 

 cases it is advisable to obtain the services of a practical 

 veterinary surgeon, but the mode of treatment given in 

 these pages has been frequently and successfully tried by 

 the author, as well as by many veterinary surgeons. 

 We will take complicated influenza first. This, in a 

 practical point of view, is a question that demands a 

 more careful consideration than any other, as the very 

 life of our patient depends upon our correct diagnoses. 

 There are many cases that require all the practice, ability, 

 and enlightened judgment we can exercise to clearly 

 comprehend them. How I wish I was endowed with a 

 stronger intelligence that would enable me to clear away 

 all the mist that surrounds this part of my subject. I 

 have devoted much time upon this matter for a number 

 of years, yet I find the more I study the more I have to 

 learn. But of this I think it is fully demonstrated, that 

 influenza is not the fault of the groom, as too many 



