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eaution should be taken. Seventy or seventy-five will 

 indicate a dangerous state, and put the owner and the 

 surgeon a little on the alert. Few horses long survive 

 a pulse of one hundred, for, by this excessive action, 

 the energies of nature are speedily worn out. Some 

 things should be taken into account in forming our 

 <5onclusion of the pulse. Exercise, a warm stable, and 

 fear will wonderfully increase the number of pulsations. 



If a quick pulse indicate kritation and fever, a slow 

 pulse will likewise characterize diseases of an opposite 

 description. It accompanies the sleepy stage of stag- 

 gers, and every malady connected with deficiency of 

 nervous energy. 



The heart may be excited to more frequent and 

 more violent action. It may contract more power- 

 fully upon the blood, which will be driven with greater 

 force through the arteries, and the expansion of the 

 vessels will be greater and more sudden. Then we 

 have the hard pulse — the sure indicator of considerable 

 fever, and calling for the immediate and free use of 

 the lancet 



