66 MAi\UAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



When attended with any degree of fever, the following 

 should be administered twice or thrice a day instead of the 

 tibove : — 



Digitalis . . 1 drachm, 



Nitre ... 3 drachms, 



Emetic tartar . . 1^ drachm. 



FEVER. 



Symptoms. — Fever commences with a cold and shivering 

 fit ; the animal manifests great dullness, with a desire to be 

 inactive ; his hair stands erect, or stares, and his legs and 

 feet are cold ; the pulse is quick, hard, and unequal ; his 

 mouth is hot, with a total loss of appetite, shivering, and a 

 dejected appearance. This is followed by general warmth 

 of the body ; an unequal distribution of heat to the limbs, 

 sometimes one being hot while the other is cold. He 

 becomes very costive, with turbid urine ; affected sometimes 

 with colic pains ; but there is no cough, pawing, or look- 

 ing back at the loins. If these symptoms are allowed to 

 proceed unchecked, the membrane that lines the eyelid 

 becomes unnaturally red ; the inflammation may then be 

 considered as settled in some internal organ, and pure or 

 symptomatic fever will have ensued. While this pure 

 fever continues, the shivering fit returns daily, at nearly the 

 same hour, and is followed by a warm one, and sometimes 

 by a cold clammy sweat. This state continues for several 

 days, and local inflammation ensues ; or the fever gradually 

 becomes abated. 



Some veterinary surgeons have absurdly denied the possi- 

 bility of fever in the horse, but those who have advanced 

 such an opinion must have paid but little attention to tlie 

 state of his pulse. 



Causes. — General increased action in the heart and arteries 



