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uneven pulfe; generally low ; fls.in fometimes 

 hot, then fuddenly cold ; fvvelled glands ; tu- 

 mours to be felt under the fldn in various parts ; 

 fwelied joints ; diarrhcea, or fcouring of offen- 

 five matter dark in colour, of the difcharge of 

 which the horfe feems fcarcely fenfible. 



As to the prognoflics, putrefadion fometimes 

 proceeds fo rapidly, owing perhaps to a pre- 

 vious depraved ftate of the humours, that medi- 

 cine feems to take no fenfible efieft, and death 

 happens in a day or two ; this I have feveral 

 times feen. Horfes of the bed conftitution, I 

 believe, very rarely recover from thefe danger- 

 ous fevers, by the mere ftrength of nature ; but 

 if left to themfelves, or what is much the fame, 

 confided to ignorant hands, they either foon 

 fall, or the difeafe vents itfelf in glanders, farcy, 

 or furfeit, of which they never afterwards get 

 thoroughly cured, from the corrupted (late of 

 their blood. I do not find that the putrid 

 fevers of horfes have their critical days, or thofe 

 ftated times of critical height, afligned to epi- 

 demics by Dr. Mead ; but that matter certainly 

 merits the inveftigation of our veterinary prac- 

 titioners. The favourable fymptoms are, an 

 increafe of more laudable and better coloured 

 difcharge from the noftrils, eruption, or ap- 

 proach to fuppuration in the tumours, increafe 

 and conftancy of natural warmth, returning 

 fenfibility and brifl^nefs : but if the contrary, 



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