CHAP. I.] INFLAMMATION : PARTICULAR. 187 



that viscus or organ, and, therefore, will be treated 

 of hereafter, under the following heads, viz. 



Inflammation of the lungs, 



Inflammation of the stomach and intestines, 



Diseases of the liver — inflammation, &c. 



urinary organs. 



All these produce/etfer throughout the whole sys- 

 tem, when either exists but in a slight degree : for 

 those parts are all of them vital, and communicate 

 their feeling to the solids by means of the circulation. 

 It is not, however, until these attacks are well 

 marked, that they deserve separate consideration ; 

 for some horses suffer under the one or the other 

 during life, with more or less malignity according 

 to existing circumstances, the lungs being the most 

 general sufferer, the bowels the seldomest attacked 

 of either, but usually proving the most fatal of this 

 whole class. 



The symptoms, in all cases, are heat and acce- 

 leration of the pulse, as before described, and 

 which in fact brought us to the consideration of 

 this portion of our subject before the others. A 

 hot mouth soon comes on ; shivering takes place 

 early, and the animal evinces signs of internal 

 pain by looking at his flanks or chest. The fever 

 is then likely to fix on the lungs, if not speedily 

 reduced. Loss of appetite follows ; but too gra- 

 dually to be waited for, as a criterion for judging 

 and acting promptly. He will evince languor and 

 dulness, with half-closed eyes, and a small dis- 

 charge from them, as if tears escaped, sometimes ; 



