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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE HEART, OF THE BOWELS, OF THE LIVER, OF 

 THE KIDNEYS, THE BLADDER, UF THE NECK OF THE BLADDER. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE HEART. 



Inflammation of the heart is a disease that 

 rarely occurs in the Horse ; but the disease 

 does occur sometimes in conjunction with in- 

 flammation of the lungs. In such case?, a 

 quantity of water becomes effused in the 

 pericardium, constituting water at the heart. 

 The symptoms of this disease are so very 

 much like those of inflammation of the kings, 

 that it is frequently mistaken for that disease. 

 However, this is rather an advantage than not 

 so ; for here the same remedies are truly 

 applicable. Still, there is one symptom, that 

 inflammation of the heart may be discovered 

 from all others ; and that is the rebounding 

 noise the heart makes at every pulsation, 

 which may be distinctly heard by any person 

 standing in the stable, though unacquainted 

 with the disease. Also, by placing your ear to 

 the chest, you will find at every pulsation of 

 the heart, the fluid in the pericardium making 

 that undulating noise, so peculiar to this disease, 

 that it is almost impossible with a little attention 

 to mistake it. On examining the pulse at the 

 usual place, it will be found hard and wiry, 

 and occasionally to have a fluttering motion. 

 This will at once bring to the mind of the 



' practitioner the necessity of immediately with- 

 drawing blood, and that not in a definite 

 quantity, but as the pulse becomes affected ; 

 for if too much be taken, it will increase the 

 debility which the Horse is labouring under. 

 However, bleeding must be resorted to ; and 

 that as extensively as possible. After which, 

 the bowels must be examined ; and if at all 

 costive, back-rake, and throw up clysters of 

 warm water and salt, until the passage be- 

 comes free and open. Also, 



Take Solution of aloes - - 2 ounces. 



Glauber salts - - 4 do. 



Linseed meal - - - 1 do. 



Hot water - - - - 2 quarts. 



Mix, and give every six hours. This will not 

 only allay the irritation of the heart, but 

 moderately open the bowels as required. 

 Place the Horse in a loose box, or bay of 

 a barn ; and treat in other respects, as for 

 inflammation of the lungs, which see, page 

 217. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 



Next to inflammation of the lungs, inflamed 

 bowe!s is the most frequent and fatal of (he 

 local affections of the Horse, and of which 



