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animal is dull and listless. There is no sprightliness in his 

 eye or activity in his movements. The appetite is very 

 capricious and over-nice ; there is constipation of the bowels, 

 coolness of the extremities ; the dung shows that the food 

 was imperfectly digested ; the urine is scanty and high 

 colored, and the pulse has a heavy beat. Besides these 

 symptoms, the lining membrane of the nostrils is blanched ; 

 occasionally the eyes have a yellow tinge, and the right side 

 shows tenderness on pressure, but these signs are not always 

 present. The febrile symptoms are not very prominent. 

 The temperature, as shewn by thermometer, will be about 

 loi degrees. 



The only case of this kind that came under my notice in 

 this city was a splendid bay gelding, about seven years old, 

 and sixteen hands high, the property of a prominent editor 

 of various periodicals. I regret to say that I was entirely 

 ignorant of the history of the animal previous to his owner- 

 ship by this gentleman The first thing noticeable about 

 him was the nicety and daintiness of his appetite, although 

 at times he seemed to eat a full share of feed. Soon after 

 such a meal he would have attacks of spasmodic colic, roll- 

 ing over on his back and kicking away for several minutes ; 

 these were only the accompaniments of the disease, besides 

 others yet to be mentioned. During this time the pulse 

 would rise to 50 or 60 beats per minute, and the tempera- 

 ture to loi and 102 degrees. There was obstinate consti- 

 pation of the bowels ; the faeces (dung) came away in very 

 small quantities, dry and hard, and generally coated with 

 mucus, shewing defective digestion ; the urine scanty and 

 high colored ; the legs were always somewhat cold and the 

 eye prominent and mild looking. 



The pulse was not feeble and wirey as in inflammation of 

 the bowels, and never rose above (if I remember right) 50 

 to 60 degrees, the temperature generally registered about 

 101-102 degrees ; neither was the respiration very much 

 above the normal standard ; so that on the whole the febrile 



