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livid and it scarcely seems to breathe; it grinds its 

 teeth, and this may be regarded as a certain symptom 

 of dissolution. Staggering ensues, and it finally 

 sinks in its stall. Sometimes if in a loose box or yard 

 it will continue to walk round and round in a circle, 

 with its head slightly sideways. If the left lung is 

 aftected it will walk round on the right circle, always 

 keeping the left side on the outside of the circle, but 

 if the right lung is the seat of the attack it will walk 

 in a circle quite the reverse. When the horse begins 

 walking 1 in this manner it is a bad siom, not one in 

 fifty ever recovering. This last is a picture of that 

 kind of inflammation that has lurked in the system 

 without exhibiting premonitory symptoms, and which 

 in most cases proves fatal. Again, there are cases in 

 which the disease is so rapid that it will have under- 

 gone its entire stages in twenty-four hours, and in 

 this short time the entire mass of the lungs will have 

 suffered complete destruction. Such a case has been 

 satisfactorily proved not to proceed from long and 

 deep-rooted inflammation, but assuredly from tiie 

 very reverse. It has been caused by the extraordi- 

 nary degree of inflammation bursting the coating of 

 the vessels and filling the air-cells with blood, thus 

 instantly destroying their functions. There are bad 

 cases which are not so rapid in their termination, but 

 which are nevertheless equally fatal. This happens 

 when no rupture of the vessels has taken place, and 

 although means have been adopted to take off the 

 pressure of the inflammation, yet they have been 

 insufficient to produce the desired effect. In such a- 



