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eight per minute, and the respirations softer and more gentle 

 than natural. 



Thied Stage. — The third stage is characterised by com- \ 

 pie be •insensibility, and loss of motive power to the patient. \ 



The pulse will be reduced, and the respirations in many cases ) 



will fall as low as four per minute. In this condition the 

 patient may continue many hours ; when at last the breathing 

 will become stertorous, and death speedily supervene. 



Pathognomonic Symptoms. — Excitement of the animal in 

 the first instance, succeeded hy unsteadiness of gait, associated 

 ivith horing of the head against the wall, dozing, and partial 

 hlindness in one or loth eyes of the patient. 



Causes. — The causes, in many instances, are obscure and 

 uncertain. Sometimes the disease is associated with disease of 

 the digestive organs ; and sometimes with tight reining and 

 over-driving, especially during the prevalence of very hot 

 weather. 



Teeatment. — Horses affected with Apoplexy seldom re- 

 cover, unless the disease is discovered and properly treated 

 during its incipient stage. Eor further particulars respecting 

 the treatment of this disease, see article " Grastritis" (Treat- 

 ment of), pages 327 to 329. \ 



MEGRIMS. 

 " With those out of the profession, who have much to do 

 with horses. Megrims appears a disorder intelligible enough. 

 Every horse-dealer or groom pretends to know what Megrims 

 is ; in the minds of these individuals there is no mistaking it 

 for anything else ; and, in point of fact — so far as a certain 

 common assemblage of symptoms go — Megrims is not difficult 



