10-i HORSE-TRAINING MADE EAST. 



DISEASES OF TFIE HORSE. 



This noble animal, more than any other of oup 

 domestic animals, is subject to diseases, which 

 are as numerous and varied as are those of man, 

 generally assuming an inflammatory character of 

 either the sthenic or asthenic form. By 



STHENIC INFLAMMATION 



We mean its acute form, which is the most com- 

 noon stage of inflammation. It is generally rapid 

 in its attacks, certain in its cause, quick in its 

 course, or in the development of its terminations 

 or consequences, and strongly marked in its symp- 

 toms and attendant fever. The most acute forms 

 of inflammation are Founder, Inflammation of the 

 Bowels, Lymphatics, Lungs, and other forms of 

 chest and abdominal inflammations. 



ASTHENIC INFLAMMATION. 



This is characterized by a feeble and debili- 

 tated state of the organism j by an uncertainty 

 in many instances as to the real nature of its 

 cause ; by an insidiousness in its progress ; by a 

 want of that precise c&rtainty in its symptoms, 

 whiab is so characteristic a feature of tho acute 

 stfe'^io kinds ; by being attended with fever of a 

 low typhoid nature j and, by its greater pronenees 

 in the generality of cases to spread to nearly all 

 the soft tissues, and terminate in gangrene and 



