3^0 ON FEVER. 



were fomewhat lefs in quantity; hidebound. 

 Thefe horfes were recovered by the farrier, and 

 the chief means Teemed to be rowels, four or 

 five of which Vv^ere cut in the belly of one of 

 the horfes ; I fuppofe the fever powder, and 

 the ufual alexipharmics with blifters or rowels, 

 are proper here : I (hould either not bleed at 

 all, or only a pint or two. Some years paft, 

 I had a horfe in this ftate feveral months, and 

 the country farrier called the difeafe a wild- 

 fire ; a run at grafs cured it. 



Fever may arife from eating unwholefome 

 food, or the conftant ufe of foul water. Mouldy 

 and rotten hay and garbage, mufty corn or 

 bran, foft beans, or too many even of the bed 

 beans; all have a tendency to produce an im- 

 pure and feverifh blood. 



Contagious Fever is either mild or pef- 

 tilential, according to the degree of virulence 

 in the exhalation infpired. In the firfl; cafe, it 

 is extremely probable that the animals affefted 

 have all received the contagion from one com- 

 mon fource, the air ; and not from infeftion 

 one of the other, the contagious material not 

 being fufficiently ftrong for that end. In pef- 

 tilential and putrid fever, ulcers, abfcefles, or 

 buboes, are formed, where freOi matter is ge- 

 nerated, capable of reproducing infeclion. Dr. 

 Darwin fuppofes, " that the m.atter of all con- 

 " tagious difeafes, whether with or without 



" fever* 



