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like beat can be felfc now and then ; the respirations will be quick 

 and short, at times running from fifty to sixty per minute ; the 

 surface of the body will either be totally suffused with a cold 

 perspiration, or it will be present in large patches upon the body, 

 the neck, the sides, the limbs, and the quarters, and these patches 

 will not be merely damp but the perspiration will be excessive ; 

 the limbs and the ears will be cold ; sometimes considerable 

 pain will be present in the bowels ; the animal will roll violently 

 upon the ground, look round at his sides, and the countenance 

 will express great anxiety. In other cases little or no pain is 

 manifested in the bowels, save now and then, as it were, a wan- 

 dering kind of pain, which is only observed for a few moments. 

 The purging, unless stopped by judicious treatment, will con- 

 tinue unabated, and the faecal matter which is occasionally parted 

 with is almost incredible — the body of the patient literally 

 dissolves away before the eyes of the observer, and from being 

 perhaps a bulky horse, he suddenly becomes thin and sunk 

 exceedingly in his general condition; the mouth and tongue 

 are covered with a soapy deposit, from which a sour smell is 

 emitted. 



The next stage of the disease is that of delirium ; the eye 

 takes on a wild appearance, he staggers and rolls as though 

 drunk ; the head is held close to the ground, the neck is placed 

 in contact with the bottom of the manger, against which the 

 horse will push with all his strength, at the same time paddling 

 with the hind feet, and every now and then giving vent to wild- 

 sounding neighs ; the breath will also have become cold, and it 

 is only with the greatest exertion that he can be got into another 

 position. In this state he may continue for an hour or two ; 

 "at last he falls, struggles violently for a short time, neighs, 

 and dies. 



