fl TYPHUS FEVER; I IS SYMPTOMa 



Tonic Ball. No. 2. 



Salt of steel, or sulphate of iron, 

 Col umbo root, and 

 Bark, of each 3 drachms. 

 With mucilage to form the ball. 



Great precaution is necessary to prevent a relapse, which would render the 

 patient's case more dangerous than at first; the animal being less capable of 

 Bearing up against a fresh attack, by reason of the reductions he has been sub- 

 jected to. Soft or sodden oats, fine hay, clover, a few vetches, carrots, grasg 

 cut fresh from a sloping ground, may succeed each other in small quantities, 

 until he may be returned to oats and hay as usual. If the heat return at in- 

 tervals, as usually happens towards nightfall, give him 



A Cooling Decoction. 



Linseed, 2 quarts. 



Coarse sugar, 2 ounces. 



Water boiling hot, 6 quarts poured upon the seed. 



Let it simmer three or four hours, and pour off the liquid for use when nearly 

 cold. The linseed will bear another water, less in quantity ; but some horses 

 will take the seeds also, which may be permitted. Give the whole in the 

 course of the day, at two or three intervals, and repeat the same decoction 

 once or twice more. 



TYPHUS, OR PUTRID FEVER, 



Is caused by long-continued debility, or slow fever, as much as by the in- 

 judicious use of medicines administered for the cure thereof Of these, the 

 most common error consists of cordial medicines, diapente, wines, &c. ; which, 

 as they give a short -Uved vigour to the animal, are supposed to have done some 

 good, and are therefore persisted in, until the digestive and secreting parts of 

 the system are spoiled. — See chap. 2, page 22, &c. 



Symptoms, the same as those in slow fever, mark typhus fever, only the 

 pulse is accelerated upon taking the medicines just alluded to: its irregularity 

 IS also greater, until, by continuance of the disease, it ceases to denote any 

 particular state of the body long together. Hence, the supply of new blood 

 carries with it similar effects : the vitals lose their tone, and the muscular part 

 of the system wastes and becomes rotten on the bones, and if the same stimu- 

 .ating treatment has been kept up until the animal dies, its flesh will be found 

 on dissection to have acquired an uncommonly bright purple colour, not only 

 on the surface, but wherever incision is made. Putrescence, in a high degree, 

 has already taken place ere that catastrophe seals the suflTerer's fate! 



I mention these mmor circumstances to prove Tso far as I can do so) the 

 real existence of this main type of putrid fever. Another symptom of typhus 

 goes to the same proof, namely, delirium, which follows a continuance of the 

 stupidity discoverable in slow fever. A well-marked case is reported in the 

 Annals of Sporting, for Nov. 1824, to which work I have since been some 

 months attached; and, although I was precluded by absence from examining 

 the subject, I have reason to rely on the report afterwards made to me by Mr. 

 P.>rd that its flesh was putrid in an extremely offensive degree, and wholly 

 anlit even to be cast to the dogs, 



Frora the very unaflccted and detailed account of the narrator, it appears 



