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thoroughly rallied from the shock ; so that the veterinary sur- 

 geon ought to be fully alive to what may follow, and by judicious 

 treatment from the first, endeavour to do that which will modify 

 its effects accordingly. Usually about the third day the pulse 

 of the patient will manifest disturbance of the system. It wall 

 increase in the number of its beats, reaching on some occasions 

 as high as 75, 80, 85, or 90 per minute. The respiratory pro- 

 cess will also be found to participate. The respirations may 

 become from 30 to 45 per minute, and be of a short and super- 

 ficial character. The skin at one time will be hot, and the 

 breath hot, at another time the skin will manifest chilliness and 

 the hair become elevated ; the urine will be scanty and high- 

 coloured, and the bowels what is called constipated. In addition 

 to this, the patient will be exceedingly restless, and if the injury 

 be amongst the muscles of a limb, the limb will be frequently 

 shifted. The injured parts will also become exceedingly tender, 

 swollen, angry looking, hot, and in some cases, dry in appearance 

 and in others moist, from the exudation of a watery secretion. 

 In this state the patient may continue two or three days, at the 

 end of which time, should the case progress favourably, the 

 surface of the wound will present a less tender and angry 

 appearance. The pulse will have become softer, and the skin 

 of a more genial temperature. In short, the state of the animal 

 will be found to gradually improve as the exudation of lymph 

 becomes more abundent ; until finally the swelling will disperse, 

 and the animal will become thorouglily restored. 



Teeatment. — The indications presented are twofold : first, 

 to control the violence of the fever ; and secondly, to aid to the 

 utmost the natural powers to exude lymph. In promoting the 

 latter we at the same time are relieving the former. 



The best remedies in general are — Aloes, Ai'omatic Am- 

 monia, Nux Vomica, Rhus Toxicodendron, Aconite, and Fomen- 

 tations. 



