248 Management and Treatment of the Horse. 



It does not, however, always happen that the 

 premonitory symptoms are the same, for in many 

 cases inflammation comes on slowly and in an 

 insidious manner ; perliaps the horse may be off 

 its feed and its coat will stare, its breathing may 

 be but slightly accelerated and abbreviated, with 

 the legs a little colder than usual. Sometimes 

 inflammation of the lungs is preceded by symp- 

 toms which are attendant upon common fever, 

 catarrh, or the distemper. In such instances 

 the true disease manifests itself in full force 

 before the groom or master of the horse in the 

 least suspects it. The flrst manifestations are 

 coldness in the limbs and ears, accompanied by a 

 flurried pulse and anxious look, with a seeming- 

 dread of lying down. This is soon followed by 

 an irregularity and indistinctness of the pulse 

 and extreme coldness of the legs and ears. The 

 nostrils become livid and it scarcely seems to 

 breathe; it grinds its teeth, and this may be 

 regarded as a certain symptom of dissolution. 

 Staggering ensues, and it finally sinks in its stall. 

 Sometimes if in a loose box or yard it will con- 

 tinue to walk round and round in a circle, with 

 its head slightly sideways. If the left lung is 

 aff'ected it will walk round on the right circle, 

 always keeping the left side on the outside of the 

 circle, but if the right lung is the seat of the attack 

 it will walk in a circle quite the reverse. When 

 the horse begins walking in this manner, it is a 

 bad sign, not one in fifty ever recovering. This 

 last is a picture of that kind of inflammation 

 that has lurked in the system without exhibiting 



