42 NAVIX ON THE HORSE. 



the system become disturbed, so that the former are greatly 

 increased or the latter diminished, fever will be the result. It 

 matters not whether this disturbance in the system be brought 

 about by a checking of perspiration, causing obstruction and 

 then infl-ammation in some organ, as the lungs, pleura, etc., or 

 whether it be the result of contagion or miasma, received 

 through the lungs, the result, in either case, is fever. A fever 

 which is produced, in the first place, by a cause acting generally, 

 may locate its principal ravages in some particular organ or 

 part. Each type of fever expends its most destructive power 

 on some particular part of the system. 



Those diseases commonly termed fevers are not so common 

 among horses as among the human family. Simple scarlet 

 fever, malignant scarlet fever, and putrid and typhus fevers, 

 deserve a brief notice. 



SIMPLE SCARLET FEVER. 



Simple scarlet fever will generally be observed to come on 

 when the horse is laboring under epidemic catarrh, and about 

 the third or fourth day of the attack, and very often when the 

 case was doing well. The symptoms which indicate its pres- 

 ence are : The hair about the head and neck will be found ele- 

 vated or turned up in spots, and the same appearance on the 

 limbs, which will also be swollen. The skin under these s^Dots 

 is only a little thickened. The most decided symptom is the 

 scarlet spots on the inside of the nose, of different sizes. There 

 may be soreness of the throat, or it may be free from any thing 

 of the kind. Of course, some degree of general fever attends 

 the case. If promptly and properly managed, the disease con- 

 tinues mild until its termination. But it may run into the 

 malignant form of the disease, or death may result from the 

 blood becoming broken down by the disease. 



Treatment. — The horse should be placed in a dry, clean stable, 

 where he will have pure air. lie should have light diet at 

 first, but, as the disease subsides, a little stronger food. Water, 



