412 THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. 



the omitting to do so will furnish at the trial strong presumption 

 that the horse, at the time of sale, was free from the defect com- 

 plained of; thus rendering the proof of a breach of warranty- 

 more difficult. Common justice and honesty require that the 

 commodity should be returned at the earliest period, and before 

 it has been so changed by lapse of time as to make it impos- 

 sible to ascertain, by proper tests, what were its original proper- 

 ties.' " — Hippopathology. 



LYMPHATITIS. 



" Lymphatitis is a disease which, although without place in 

 any of our systematic books by our professed writers, is yet, 

 upon the whole, well known, and is designated by a variety of 

 names. In Scotland, for example, it is called weed ; while in 

 various parts of England it is known as felltick, thick leg, 

 farcy, water farcy, shot-o '-grease, and a number of others 

 which it is unnecessary to detail, and which, if detailed, would 

 be perfectly impossible to understand. Fifteen years ago, a Mr. 

 J. Henderson wrote a paper upon this affection, which the reader 

 will find in the ninth volume of The Veterinarian; and from 

 that time to the present it does not appear that our knowledge 

 of its pathology is very greatly increased. 



" Symptoms. — The disease, for the most part, commences with 

 a shivering fit, though, in many cases, its existence may be so 

 slight, and its duration so short, as not to be noticed by any save 

 a careful observer. Generally the attack is very sudden ; the 

 owner, or the servant in care, may go now, as it were, out of the 

 stable, and leave his horse to all appearance perfectly well, and 

 upon returning in an hour hence he will find him standing upon 

 three legs, while the fourth will be flexed and held high from 

 the ground ; the pulse will vary in its beats according to the 

 intensity of the attack, rarely, however, beating less than fifty, 

 or more than one hundred per minute ; while the respirations 

 may be fifteen or twenty, or even forty, in the same interval of 

 time. If the affected limb be examined it will be found hot and 

 swollen, and tender if pressed upon, which symptoms for many 

 hours will gradually increase in intensity. Soon after commence- 



