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the breath is hot ; the mouth is dry, or perhaps preternaturally 

 moist, and offensive to the smell ; the membrane within the nos- 

 trils is either pallid or of a lead-like hue ; the coat will stare ; the 

 limbs will be of a variable temperature — two of them cold, and 

 the others preternaturally hot ; or the limbs will be hot and cold, 

 in patches ; the throat will perhaps be sore. The eyes are either 

 dull and heavy-looking, or the eyelids may present considerable 

 tumefaction, attended with a copious flow of hot acrid tears. 



As the disease advances, the cough becomes worse, and the 

 throat more sore, accompanied with swelling at the junction 

 of the head and neck, and within the submaxillary space ; the 

 appetite may wholly disappear, and the bowels, in consequence, 

 secrete little or nothing ; so that the bile, not being required 

 for the digestive and other functions within the economy, be- 

 comes absorbed into the system, and the mucous membranes 

 speedily present that yellowness so commonly manifested under 

 the circumstances. If the patient, at this stage of the disease, 

 be made to walk a few yards, he will stagger and sway from 

 side to side, as though likely to fall at every step. 



Sometimes a purulent discharge manifests itself at the 

 nose, which is not unfrequently followed by relief to the sore- 

 ness of the throat ; while in others, again, such relief is not so 

 evident. The discharge, however, may in all cases be regarded 

 as a favourable issue. Should the malady be attended with- 

 swelling in the region of the throat and within the submax- 

 illary space, such swelling wiU become larger, and the skin of 

 the part more tender, until matter is fully formed. If every 

 care be taken of the animal, at this stage of the malady, all 

 may pass off well, and leave the patient in the end little or 

 none the worse for the attack ; but if improperly treated, or he 

 be exposed to cold and damp, or if taken to work too soon, it is 

 highly probable that Scarlatina may supervene, and particularly 



