CHAP. I.] CAUSES OF INFLAMMATION. 175 



ceptibly ; but as the latter (termed constipatioii) is 

 of most frequent recurrence, is a disorder of re- 

 pletion, producing vertigo, staggers, apoplexy, me- 

 grims, or fits, we have considered it under a separate 

 head, as " costiveness ;" seeing that it sometimes 

 supervenes without previous fever, though always 

 accompanied by it. One or other of these species 

 of affection of the bowels is also produced by 

 catarrhal inflammation, or fever of the organs of 

 respiration, when this is violent or of long continu- 

 ance, or the patient is bled too much. 



Respiration of confined or noxious air in close 

 stables, as described at p. 120, also occasions quicker 

 circulation of blood ; this is temporary fever, and 

 occurs almost every night in some stables, which 

 may be confirmed by sudden exposure to the open 

 air, and the consequent detention of blood in the 

 small vessels we term capillary ; but usually goes 

 off by natural perspiration before morning. Sud- 

 den immersion in cold water, whilst sweating and 

 respiring with difficulty after a run, wading through 

 a river, or standing in a current of cold air, are all 

 prolific sources of inflammatory disorders. Indeed, 

 fever and inflammation are so closely allied to each 

 other, that we run little risk of creating confusion 

 of terms by considering them as derived from the 

 same origin, and none whatever in treating of both 

 in the same chapter. For most stablemen and 

 farriers, as well as many veterinary writers, do 

 speak of the one and the other promiscuously, as if 

 they were the same, when describing the symptoms 



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