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acute are also terms applied to this disease, but these terms have 

 merely reference to the stage or intensity. 



Symptoms of Congestive Pneumonia. — " In the worst cases of 

 this kind, the animal is all over in a tremor; a cold sweat be- 

 dews his body ; there is no pulse to be felt ; his extreme parts 

 betray the coldness of death ; his eye is frightfully wild ; and, 

 together with the boring of head and stupidity evinced by 

 him, clearly denote the poor sufferer to be laboring under a spe- 

 cies of delirium. Should this state of congestion come on in the 

 stable, gradually, and some time after the cause is applied, the 

 horse will show it by appearing dull, listless, heavy headed, and 

 off his appetite ; his respiration will gradually become more dis- 

 turbed and oppressed, indicating much more of labor than of 

 pain. The pulse will be full and quick, but probably so feeble 

 as hardly to be perceptible. The ear, applied to the chest, de- 

 tects no sound ; the usual respiratory murmur is lost. The ex- 

 tremities — the legs and ears — have a cold, death-like feel ; and 

 in extreme cases, the mouth is cold also, and the pupils more or 

 less dilated. Cold sweats supervene; no pulse is to be felt ; the 

 animal gradually sinks, and in convulsions and delirium dies." 



Symptoms of Inflammatory Pneumony. — " The symptoms will 

 be such as are observed at the beginning of common fever and 

 other inflammatory diseases, such as staring, or erection of the 

 hair, and cold extremities, followed, perhaps, by actual rigor ; the 

 horse ' hangs his head ' either in or under the manger, and has 

 not eaten his last meal ; has had for some days a short, dry 

 cough, which comes on when he is exercised, or after drinking ; 

 and is dull and dejected in countenance, and moves with great 

 disinclination. To this succeed fever, quickness of pulse, and 

 heat of mouth, and injection of the membranes of the nose 

 and eyes ; and now, in the second stage, the breathing becomes 

 disturbed, and the case quickly develops itself. The nostrils 

 will be seen opening and shutting their wings ; the flanks labori- 

 ously working up and down ; for the disturbed breathing will be 

 of a kind to indicate embarrassment or oppression, rather than 

 sickness or pain ; whereas in subacute cases, the flanks can hard- 

 ly be seen to move at all ; then it is that the nostrils become 

 an important guide to us. The pulse, at the beginning, is ac- 



