230 THE PULSE. 



pulse: and if the number of pulsations are aug- 

 mented, we say, it is a quick or frequent pulse : 

 a quick and bard pulse is generally a sign of some 

 internal inflammation. In inflammatory colic, 

 the pulse is small, quick, and hard ; and if after 

 bleeding it becomes fuller, and softer, and not so 

 quick, we conclude the inflammation is greatly 

 abated ; but if, on the contrary, the pulse become 

 quick, and almost imperceptible, it indicates, with 

 the other unfavourable symptoms present, that the 

 bowels are in a gangrenous state. The pulse, in 

 inflammation of the lungs, is usually a small 

 oppressed pulse ; but occasionally I have felt it 

 quick, full, and hard. In mad staggers it is com- 

 monly quick, full, and hard. 



A soft pulse, is when the powers moving the 

 blood are weakened, so that the blood is feebly 

 driven forwards, and scarcely resists the pressure 

 of the fingers ; bleeding often produces a soft and 

 slow pulse, which before was hard and frequent. 

 A small soft pulse indicates a horse to be weak. 



If the number of pulsations of a horse are aug- 

 mented to 60 or 70, or more, and this does not 

 arise from exercise, or fear of the animal, and is 

 attended with other symptoms of sickness, we may 

 infer that he is labouring under symptomatic or 



