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every four or five hours. A dose of physic, consisting 

 of eight or ten drachms of aloes, should be given at once, 

 and its operation assisted by large injections of Epsom 

 or Glauber salts in solution. The horse should be well 

 rubbed and blanketed, and a strong liniment rubbed along 

 the spine. 



If the disease terminates fatally, it is usually from the 

 sixth to the eighth day. There are occasionally slight 

 remissions in the spasm, but not sufficiently to enable the 

 animal to eat or to drink. If these remissions return and 

 increase in length, and particularly if there is more relax- 

 ation c^f-the lower jaw, there is yet hope. If the horse 

 recovers, it will be slowly, and he will be left sadly weak, 

 and a mere walking skeleton. 



FEVER. 



Fever is general increased arterial action, either with- 

 out any local affection, or in consequence of the sympa- 

 thy of the system with inflammation in some particular 

 part. 



The first is pure fever. Owing to bad stable manage- 

 ment and general treatment, and the susceptibility of va- 

 rious parts of the horse to take on inflammation, this 

 usually degenerates into inflammation. But pure fever 

 is sometimes seen, and runs its course regularly. 



It frequently begins with a cold and shivering fit, 

 although this is not essential to fever. The horse is dull, 

 unwilling to move, has a staring coat, and cold legs and 

 feet. This is succeeded by warmth of the body ; une- 

 qual distribution of warmth to the legs ; one hot, and the 

 other three cold, t>r one or more unnaturally warm, and 

 the others unusually cold, but not the deathlike coldness 

 of inflammation of the lungs ; the pulse quick, soft, and 

 often indistinct ; the breathing somewhat laborious ; but 

 no cough or pawing, or looking at the flanks. The ani- 

 mal will scarcely eat, and is very costive. While the 

 state of pure fever lasts, the shivering fit returns at 

 nearly the same hour every day, and is succeeded by the 

 warm one, and that often by a slight degree of perspira- 

 tion ; and these alternate during several days until local 



