BOOK II. 



THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF VARIOUS BODILY 

 DISEASES INCIDENT TO THE HORSE; WITH THE 

 MOST APPROVED REMEDIES IN EVERY CASE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Of Internal Diseases, 



Inflammatory disorders, generally: — Fe- 

 ver. — From all the information the reader may 

 have collected together in his mind, respecting the 

 " circulation of the blood," as described with in- 

 structive minuteness at pages 114 to 123, he will 

 naturally conclude that the horse is ever most liable 

 to contract one or the other of those disorders we 

 term inflammatory. The great heat of his blood, 

 combined with his bulk, and the amazing exertions 

 he is compelled to make, all together constantly 

 pre-dispose him to incur fever of the whole system 

 or inflammation of particular parts, according to con- 

 curring circumstances. Nor is the matter changed 

 one whit, when we reflect that fever sometimes 

 terminates in local inflammation, which we term 

 " critical," as being the crisis and termination of 

 the disorder ; and that the inflammation of one part 



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