Section Second 



THE HORSE 



IN 



SICKNESS AND DISEASE 



CHAPTER XVII 

 THE HORSE IN SICKNESS AND DISEASE 



FEVBR-INPLAMMATION-INPLUBNZA- 

 GLANDBRS AND FARCY. 



I.— Fever. 



Fevek in the horse assumes hardly ever any other than 

 a mild, inoffensive form, and is no less insidious in its 

 approach than (at least, until it has made some advance) 

 indeterminate in its character. Now and then a cold and 

 even a shiverinp^ fit is manifest ; a sweating stage is rare, 

 but not uninstanced. To assume that either one or both 

 these paroxysms is requisite to constitute a fever is not 

 only to show ignorance of the pathological nature of horse 

 fever, but to argue in opposition to established practical 

 evidence. 



Inflammatory fever may be of two kinds : one arising 

 without any manifest cause, or at least not dependent on 

 any other disease; the other symptomatic, because it is 

 the consequence of some manifest disease. 



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