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apoplexy, but it often becomes frequent and feeble toward the 

 fatal termination. The respirations are sometimes stertorous, in 

 other eases suspiroiis, and accompanied by sighing or moaning. 

 In most cases the temj>eratiire of the body is notably raised. If 

 the breathing be stertorous, with deep coma, sighing or grunt- 

 ing, the prognosis is extremely unfavorable. Great feebleness, 



Fig. 116— Icing in Sunstroke— the horse in a comatose state. 



relaxation of the sphincters, tracheal rales, and complete immo- 

 bility, are forerunners of a fatal termination; convulsions are 

 extremely unfavorable. 



Treatment. — If the patient emerges from the comatose state, 

 convalescence is usually speedy. The treatment is to be adapted 

 to the pathological character of the affection, as represented by 

 the symptoms in individual cases. Pursuing this course, thera- 

 peutical measures, so far from being the same, will be diametri- 

 cally opposite in different cases. In cases of nervous exhaustion, 



