CHAPTER XY. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LFNGS. 



Of all the diseases incidental to the horse, there 

 are none which we have more to dread than in- 

 flammation of the lungs ; it is the most prevalent, 

 and at the same time most fatal. Sometimes this 

 disease comes on so suddenly that the horse is 

 almost dead before the attack is discovered. 

 Many horses are left at night to all appearance 

 well, and in the morning are found either dead 

 or dying from this disease, but in the greater 

 number of cases fever is a premonitory symptom. 

 In most cases in the early stages of the disease 

 it is not very rapid, but it is heavy in its action 

 and indistinct, feeling vibratory under the pres- 

 sure of the finger ; in other cases it is hardly to 

 be perceived, so languid is its motion. These 

 are the cases that generally prove fatal, as many 

 men do not understand this disease, and take no 

 notice of it in its early stages, so that the attack 

 assumes a violent form before remedies are ad- 

 ministered. In many cases that have come under 

 the author's observation, the horse has been 

 noticed to be dull and off its feed for a day or 

 two before anything was thought wrong. Such 

 is the ignorance of many men, that they do not 

 know that a horse is ill until it falls down at 



