12 INTERNAL INFLAMMATION. 



constitution by giving the following to the horse 

 two or three times a day in a pint of warm ale : 



Peruvian bark, one ounce ; 

 Ginger, halt" an ounce; 

 Opium, half a drachm. 



(See further on this subject in the chapters on 

 Wounds and Bruises.) 



Internal Inflammation. 



If inflammation attack any principal organ, as 

 the head, lungs, intestines, or other internal and 

 important parts, it disturbs and injures their func- 

 tions, increases the action of the heart and arte- 

 ries, constituting what is called symptomatic fever, 

 and the disease is jaccompanied with different 

 symptoms, according to the seat of the inflamma- 

 tion. Thus, in inflammation of the lungs, there 

 are symptoms of fever present, with difficulty of 

 breathing, and the horse continually standing. In 

 inflammation of the bowels there is fever, the 

 horse lying down and rising again suddenly, with 

 other signs expressive of the part affected. When 

 the brain or its membranes are aflected with in- 

 flammation, as in mad staggers, the horse appears 

 dull, stupid, and drowsy ; and as the disease ad- 

 vances, he becomes raging, with other symptoms 

 indicating the head is the part affected. If in- 



