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bronchitis; though as soon as the inflammation has fairly 

 set in, 



The symptoms commonly prove such as will dispel any 

 doubts we may entertain of its similitude. The horse will 

 begin by evincing uneasiness, and that will gradually increase 

 until he come to manifest acute and poignant pain. And now 

 he will heave, or rather pant, violently at his flanks, puffing 

 and blowing in the same painful and distressing manner from 

 his dilated nostrils, while occasionally he casts most piteous 

 looks back at his flank, as if entreating the bystander to 

 relieve him of the agony he is enduring. He is hot all over 

 his body — actually in parts sweating with pain ; and is in 

 such a state of nervous irritation that he cannot be easy for 

 a minute even ; but is looking first one way, then the other, 

 and every now and then pawing with his fore feet, or else 

 laying down for a moment, to try if that posture will give 

 him ease ; but finding none, he is up again almost as soon 

 as down. Pressure against the intercostal spaces occasions 

 flinching and shrinking, and commonly elicits a characteristic 

 gy^unt, with off'ers to bite. Often a cough is present, and 

 this so annoys him by the pain it occasions that he, in 

 eff'orts to suppress it, makes a sort of reiterated hacking or 

 half-cough of it. The pulse is very quick, and has a firm 

 wiry feel. The mouth is hot and dry. The pituitary 

 membrane is reddened and humid; but there is no per- 

 ceptible defluxion, unless some catarrhal or bronchitic irri- 

 tation be present as well. 



Under the sub-acute or even chronic form, pleurisy 

 is quite different in its manifestations. Although we find, 

 post-mortem, often almost equal intensity of inflammation in 

 the membrane, we have during life no such violent and 

 distressing symptoms as are indicated in the acute form. 

 But, on the contrary, we have even dulness and dejection 

 continuing from first to last. Even the respiration does not 

 signify any or much embarrassment until shortly before 

 death, when all the time the thorax is nearly or quite full 

 of water. In fact, the only symptoms indicative of such 

 being chronic pleurisy, is the tenderness evinced by pressure 



