THE 



PRACTICE OF EQUINE MEDICINE. 



SECTION L 

 CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. — OBJECTS OF STUDY. 



In dealing with the disturbances of animal activities which we 

 recognise under the term of disease, the abnormal conditions 

 are usually regarded under two hghts — either grouped as parti- 

 cular phenomena which within certain limits manifest them- 

 selves with a wonderful similarity as changes of a generic 

 nature in all animals, or as individual exhibitions of altered 

 activities in particular animals. 



Under the first of these considerations or modes of deaHng 

 with unnatural activities, the subject-matter of General 

 Pathology, cognizance is taken of all pertaining to those 

 abnormal phenomena which are ordinarily found associated 

 with, or together make up every, or nearly every, unnatural, i.e. 

 diseased condition or perverted organic action which demands 

 our attention in animal bodies, including such morbid pheno- 

 mena as are known by the names ' Congestion,' ' Infla:mma- 

 TiON,' ' Degeneration,' etc., and which are more or less con- 

 stantly associated and found in connection with every disease. 



Under the second. Special Pathology, attention is directed 

 to all matters and influences connected with the manifestations 

 of particular and individual diseases as exhibited in particular 

 animals. 



Although, in the systematic teaching of medicine, it is 



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