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mon in horses than any other. The author attnoutes this 

 (in this city) to the bountiful use of the Cochituate water. 

 When the horse has just arrived from a journey, or is in a 

 state of perspiration, the showering process, so much in fashion 

 just now, is decidedly injurious. If the legs of the animal 

 are sluiced with water, and he is afterwards suffered to stand 

 where a current of air blows on him, he is likely to take cold. 

 Horses accustomed to warm clothing, and warm stables, are, 

 of course, most liable to cold. The symptoms are cough, 

 dulness, want of appetite, discharge from the nostrils, fre- 

 quently accompanied by sore throat, and difficulty of swal- 

 lowing. 



Catarrh, Epidemic The epidemic catarrh is so named 

 from its spreading over a country as a general disorder, often 

 for a considerable time. When the disease is so prevalent, it 

 is supposed to depend on a certain state of the atmosphere. 



Catheter. A gum elastic tube, for the purpose of draw- 

 ing off the urine. The one used for the horse is about four 

 feet in length. 



Caustics. Preparations that destroy the part to which 

 they are applied. 



Cellular Membrane. The substance by which various 

 parts of the body are united to each other. The cells of 

 which this structure is composed, communicate with each 

 other ; which is proved by making a small opening in the 

 skin of an animal, introducing a blow-pipe, and blowing 

 through it, by which the adjacent skin will puff up; if suf- 

 ficient power were employed, the air may be thus forced all 

 over the body. 



Cerebellum. The small brain. It is situated immediately 

 behind the cerebrum, or large brain, and upon the origin of 

 the spinal marrow. 



Chest. (See Thorax.) 



Chest Founder. (See Founder.) 



Chronic A term used to denote a disease of long stand- 

 ing, unaccompanied by fever or inflammation. 



Chyle. A milky fluid, formed by the action of the gastric, 



