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the general functions are disturbed. One that first showa 

 itself is the unequal distribution of heat, the legs and ears 

 being much colder than the other parts of the body. The 

 coat stares, the horse loses his appetite, is evidently uneasy, 

 and occasionally looks gently round towards his ribs. In 

 the early stages the nasal linings look paler than usual ; 

 but as it advances they become of a leaden hue, and 

 although the general surface of the trunk may vary in its 

 temperature, the extremities, as the legs, ears, and tail, and 

 sometimes the muzzle, are found uniformly cold. Cough is 

 by no means a pathognomonic symptom ; many cases are 

 without it. But when it does exist, it is at first short, dry, 

 and frequent, and becomes eventually heavy, thick, and 

 painful ; occasionally some mucus with bloody striae is 

 thrown up in coughing, particularly when the bronchi 

 participate in the affection. The respiration becomes dis- 

 turbed as soon as the disease is formed ; the first febrile 

 attack will hurry it, but, the severity of that over, it 

 becomes simply laboured. As the complaint increases, the 

 pulse becomes still more oppressed and irregular, so as to 

 present, at the region of the heart, nothing but the faintest 

 flutter ; the legs, ears, and muzzle feel still more intensely 

 cold, although partial sweats may visit the carcass. The 

 nostrils change to a still more livid hue ; and the air they 

 expire is chill. The mouth now becomes cold and pale, 

 convulsive twitchings affect the breast, neck, and face, the 

 teeth grate, and death ensues earlier or later, as the disease 

 has been more or less rapid, occurring sometimes as early 

 as the second or third day, but more often between the 

 third and seventh, being also sometimes prolonged to the 

 fourteenth or fifteenth. 



The terminations of pneumonia are more varied than in 

 most other complaints. Resolution is that most to be 

 desired, in which the symptoms gradually subside, either 

 spontaneously, or aided by the curative treatment. Con- 

 gestion is the termination to be dreaded, which sometimes 

 suffocates the patient on the fourth or fifth day, by filling 

 up the air-cells with thickened blood. In the epidemic 

 pneumonia, where a considerable degree of malignance is 

 occasionally present, instead of blood, the air-cells often 

 become choked with serum. 



Gangrene is not a frequent termination of true pneumonia. 

 The imiation or the congestion usually destroys the animal 



