(if INFLAMMATION: SYMPTOMS. 



wi<l be found sufficient completely to reduce the symptoms ; but in the fever 

 simply so called (arising from inflammation of the solids as before described), 

 a repetition of the purgative becomes necessary, with mashes, a quiet stable, 

 and an attentive groom. When the fever arises from indigesti-)n, or any de- 

 rangement of the stomach or bowels, its immediate cause will be found in 

 hardened faeces ; and in addition to the forementioned remedies, give a 



Purgative Clyster. 



Water gruel, 6 to 7 quarts. 

 Table salt, an ounce to each quart. 



Lei it be applied assiduously, and some assistance be given to bring away the 

 first hard faeces that apj^ar : the remainder of the hardened dung will come 

 away, naturally, in good time. See further under the head " Costiveness." 



Castor oil, in the quantity of a pint or more, will open the canal partially 

 only, passing by the main evil in the coecum and great gut^* and pro- 

 ducing but a small quantity of the offensive cause of disease. But 

 help must be afforded in this respect; and if the bowels yield not to the 

 purgative ball, other means must be resorted to, though 1 should never think 

 of having recourse to oil in the first instances. Although the constipation 

 or obstruction be obstinate, yet very strong diuretic purgatives are ineligible, 

 as they might kill the animal, or at least injure the intestines materially, by 

 reason of that very circumstance. 



Distinctions have been drawn by some writers between "symptomatic and 

 simple fever ;" that is to say, whether the excitement, called fever, originate 

 in a check of the circulation received externally or internally ; but as the 

 treatment in both cases is so nearly the same, 1 shall make no such distinction. 

 The internal attacks alluded to, when confined to a single organ, and not ex- 

 tending to the whole fran)e, are more properly termed inflammation of that 

 viscus or organ, and therefore will be treated of hereafter, under the following 

 heads, viz. 



Inflammation of the Lungs, 

 Inflammation of the Stomach and Intestines, 

 Diseases of the Liver — Inflammation, &c. 

 Kidneys and Bladder. 



All these produce fever throughout the whole system, when either exists 

 but in a slight degree; for those parts are all of them vital, and communicate 

 their feeling to the solids by means of the circulation. It is not, however, un- 

 til these attacks are well marked, that they deserve separate consideration ; for 

 some horses suffer under the one or other during life, with more or less malig- 

 nity according to exciting circumstances, the lungs being the most general 

 Bufferer, the bowels the seldomest attacked of either, but usually prove the 

 most fatal of this whole class. 



The symptoms, in all cases, nre heat and acceleration of the pulse, as before 

 described, and which in foot, brought me to the consideration of this portion 

 ot my subject before the others, A hot mouth soon comes on ; shivering takes 

 place early, and the animal evinces signs of internal pain by looking at his 

 tlanks or chest. The fever is then likely to fix on the lungs if not speedily 

 reduced. Loss of appetite follows ; but too gradually to be waited for, as a 



'The practical reader, whilst wailing the progress of the disease, will not waste his time hy 

 turning bark to the first book, at p. 46, and see wliat is said of the conformation of those largo 

 g'iui, and the difliculty of escape that must attend their offensive contents at the turiis or sinu 

 wea (which I liave theie coiisidcr«jd as so many valves), wh^n inflammation or fever h}>^ waca 

 befim. 



