214 THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. 



The symptoms are very minutely defined in the following arti- 

 cle by Surgeon Haycock : — 



" Simple Scarlatina. — This form of the disease usually ap- 

 pears in association with epidemic catarrh : it seldom, or, perhaps, 

 never manifests itself simultaneously with epidemic catarrh, but 

 usually on the third or fourth, and even as late as the sixth day 

 from the commencement of the former. The animal affected with 

 catarrh will, perhaps, be fed and left at night in what may be con- 

 sidered a fair way of recovery ; but when the attendant enters the 

 stable on'the morning following, the patient may be found affected 

 in a very peculiar manner ; the hair about the neck, the fore and 

 hind limbs, will be elevated in blotches, while the limbs themselves 

 will be found in a swollen condition. The blotchy elevations, 

 generally speaking, are not large, but they are exceedingly char- 

 acteristic of the malady. If the hand be pressed lightly over 

 them, scarcely any corresponding elevations can be found upon 

 the skin beneath. The mucous membrane of the nose will have 

 upon it a few scarlet spots of variable size ; the pulse, in some 

 instances, will be increased in action considerably, while in oth- 

 ers, even when the disease appears most severe, not so much. 

 If the epidemic catarrh, or the disease under which the patient 

 labors, be attended with soreness of throat, that soreness may be- 

 come greatly increased, or it may not. Sometimes the blotchy 

 elevations are confined to the hind limbs, and the scarlet spots 

 to the membrane of one nostril, while in other cases all these 

 symptoms are present, but in such a very mild degree as not to 

 excite the attention of any one but a closely observing prac- 

 titioner. If, at this stage of the disease, the animal be judicious- 

 ly treated, and the stable be dry and comfortable, the whole may 

 pass off in a few days without any further mischief ensuing ; 

 but if the treatment be improper, the stable cold and damp, and 

 the animal otherwise unfavorably circumstanced, it is probable 

 that the disease will become more virulent, and either assume 

 the malignant form, or pass into what is called ' purpura has- 

 morrhagica,' and the life of the animal, in either state, become 

 greatly endangered." 



Treatment. — This is one among the many diseases which are 

 considered self-limited ; that is, they will run a regular course, 



