REMEDY. FENTBR OF FUNCTIONAL DERANGEMENT. 6'7 



(Miiticularly serviceable to veterinarians : for this reason it is I recommentl the 

 reader to compare what is said of the symptoms of high fever, just above, with 

 the present page, as regards the symptoms of low fever. They are placed 

 near together for that purpose, as I then said (at page 64). The pulse in 

 this case never mounts high during an entire minute, but beats quick a few 

 strokes, and then slow, and so low as scarcely to be perceptible ; this denotes, 

 that though fever be present, there is not strength sufficient to bring it to a 

 crisis. The artery feels rigid, at intervals only, and again becomes supple, 

 if not elastic, to the touch; his flanks are agitated more than usual, and his 

 hind quarters and ears become cool if not cold. As in high fever, his eyes 

 are dull and heavy, and water will occasionally fall from them. Though in 

 the former species of fever he evince considerable pain, in this no such symp- 

 tom appears, but despondency assumes its place. 



Remedy. — Unless his body be already too open, give the laxative draught, 

 as under : and as he will still feed, diuretic powders may be mixed occasion- 

 ally with his feed, consisting of nitre and rosin, of each about one ounce 

 Should the urine appear turbid, or come off with difficulty, in small quanti- 

 ties, the diuretic ball is indispensable ; and these, with good gruel and care, 

 accompanied by tonics, will restore to the animal a comparative portion of 

 health. Time and moderate usage will accomplish the remainder. 



Laxative Draught. 



Aloes and carbonate of potash, of each 2 drachms, 

 Mint water, 4 ounces. 



This will correct the urine also, and its laxative quality may be increasfti 

 by adding to the quantity of aloes. 



A Diuretic Ball. 



Turpentine and soap, of each 4 drachms, with mucilage to form the ball. 



A good restorative for lowness, occasioned by the moulting fever of autumn, 

 is recommended by J. Clark, of Edinburgh : he says, "the end of autumn 



E roves very severe to those horses whose flesh and strength are exhausted by 

 ard labour. In this low and spiritless state the moulting season comes on, 

 and carries off numbers that good nursing and feeding, with rich boiled food, 

 at this season might have preserved. Carrots and potatoes recover some horses 

 surprisingly ; it renews their flesh and the fluids generally, and promotes the 

 secretions ; it operates upon them nearly in the same manner as spiing grass, 

 and its effects are presently visible on their coats." Many stable men give 

 oatncieal mixed up into bergue, or crowdie, for horses that evince signs of lan- 

 guor and lowness of spirits, after fatiguing work in winter : if made into stiff 

 gruel, i. e. boiled, the restorative effect is found still more desirable, and a 

 smaller quantity of oats then sufficetL. A gradual return to hard food does 

 all for the horse's working condition which can be desired. 



Fever is brought on, in some degree, whenever it comes to pass that either 

 .if the vital organs may be deranged in its functions. Not unfrequently it 

 happens that a diuretic is all the patient requires, which may be judged of by 

 the state of his pulse after the medicine has operated. When this is the case, 

 the feverish symptoms owe their origin to suppression of urine, and the re- 

 absorption of the contents of the bladder into the system. See Bladder and 

 "Suppression of urine;" and, after treating the attack simply as such, a cor 

 dial ball should then take place of all further treatment, as the immediate tail 



