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cies of fever are generally found in body, and 

 have good (lamina. 



Solleyfel notices a fever, which he calls a 

 PALPITATION. OF THE HEART: the diacjnof- 

 tics, violent heaving of the flanks, and laborious 

 refpiration. He advifes one remedy, which I 

 think no man in )iis wits will adopt ; .namely, 

 to let the horfe blood in the neck-vein, and 

 then keep him an hour ftanding up to the neck 

 in water. I have two or three times feen horfes 

 feized with this palpitation, which continues 

 feveral days. It is fometimes the forerunner of 

 a broken wind, or in a broken-winded horfe, 

 the fign of exacerbation of the difeafe, and ap- 

 proach to its word ftage. Bleedings. Neutral 

 falts, with infuhons of the herbs as before. Tar 

 water. 



There is a low inirrltative fever, attended 

 with great debility, with which horfes are often 

 feized very fuddenly. I have paid particular 

 attention to this cafe, in feveral inftances, with- 

 out being able to form the lead probable guefs 

 as to the im. mediate caufe of the difeafe : in 

 July lad I faw feveral horfes affiicled with it. 

 They iliddenly, whilft at work, loft their appe- 

 tite, and their flefli fo faft, that in three days 

 they looked like dog-horfes. The hollownefs 

 of the flanks very remarkable, intermittent 

 pulfe, no difcharge at the noftrils, nor much 

 alteration as to the other dilcharges ; but they 



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