6S Manageine7it and Treatment of the Horse. 



These cases generally do badly; there is not 

 a sufficiency of vitality to see them through. 

 Whenever the animal begins to lie down it is 

 generally a favourable sign, as when they are 

 recovering they generally lie down a good deal. 

 It is also noticed that those who swell most about 

 the eyes generally get on the most favourably. 



Sometimes we find symptoms of complicated 

 influenza. By this term we mean horses with some 

 previous disease upon them becoming affected 

 with influenza, or else whilst suffering from an 

 attack of influenza it assumes a malignant, sub- 

 acute form, locating itself in some vital organ. 

 In either case they are dangerous, and will be 

 found most difficult cases to treat. They are in- 

 tractable and often running on to tuberculous 

 lungs or effusion. Some of them are not bad to 

 diagnose. There are cases in which the pulse is 

 kept up by debility solely. These can be dis- 

 criminated and must not be mistaken for compli- 

 cated cases ; there is an unusually foul, clammy 

 mouth, offensive odour, dirty, yellow, buccal 

 membranes and conjunctive. You cannot by any 

 means produce and maintain healthy action ; the 

 bowels are sluggish, the feeces dry, hard, and 

 coated, the secretions generally suspended, the 

 diseased organ will feel the full force of the defi- 

 ciency of animal electricity, and the result in 

 most cases is that parenchyma of the organ yields 

 to the putrid stage, and death, in from seven to 

 ten days, closes the scene. We will now examine 

 this question from another point of view, so that 

 my readers may have the fullest investigation into 



