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sometimes inordinate sweating accompanies the exer- 

 tions of the convulsion with which it is attended. 

 After remaining some days in this state, the animal if 

 not speedily cured, which is but seldom the case, dies 

 of exhaustion and pain. 



Treatment. — Although many never think it worth 

 while to attempt a cure unless the horse be very 

 valuable, yet, as Mr. Blaine very justly observes, 

 " Although the greater number of instances prove 

 fatal, yet still a sufficient number recover to warrant 

 our utmost endeavours ; and the more so, as most oi 

 those who do survive, appear to do so from the bene- 

 ficial effect of the treatment adopted. The very dif- 

 ferent means which have been successfully tried might 

 stagger the sceptic, and make him attribute the reco- 

 veries under these discordant medical agencies to con- 

 stitutional strength ; but there is no reason whatever 

 for such a conclusion. This is not the only instance 

 by many, wherein very opposite means are beneficially 

 employed for the cure of the same disease in different 

 subjects. Every practitioner is aware of the benefit 

 derived from cold applications in some inflammatory 

 cases ; and every one is equally aware how salutary 

 hot fomentations prove, apparently, in similar inflam- 

 mations in other subjects. A curative end is equally 

 produced by both : the modus operandi to us is not 

 evident. This circumstance should make the veteri- 

 nary practitioner not absolutely wed himself to one 

 plan of treatment universally. When any such has 

 been pursued without appearance of success, let another 

 be adopted." 



A skilful veterinarian in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mr. 

 Wilkinson, has published an account of some remark- 

 able cases of this disease in which he wrought several 



