CHAP. I.] DANGER OF RELAPSE. 189 



thus pressed forward together upon the reader's 

 notice, as exemplifying the assiduity he should dis- 

 play in repelling the attack, let him know that his 

 work is but half completed when he finds the heat 

 and acceleration of the pulse reduced by his en- 

 deavours to the ordinary standard. The lone of 

 the patient's stomach and the whole digestive pro- 

 cess require restoration, and this with a careful 

 hand, that the bowels may not again get over- 

 loaded; and for this reason a second attack of this 

 sort would be more difficult to surmount than at 

 first ; for the bowels have partly lost their function 

 of expelling their contents, through the violence of 

 the disease, if not by the harsh action of the re- 

 medies employed. Hardy working horses, of course, 

 recover their appetite as soon as the fever abates; 

 and no further care is required for such than an 

 occasional laxative or purgative, according to the 

 amount of obstruction. But high-bred horses that 

 have been kept tenderly, and their stomachs sub- 

 mitted to the stimulation of cordials for a long time, 

 their organs of digestion being then more irritable, 

 require more attention in restoring them to their 

 proper tone. Moreover, until the tone of the 

 stomach is completely restored, which is known by 

 the return of the patient's appetite, the kidneys ex- 

 hibit their ill-feeling by refusing to perform the 

 function of secreting urine — so great is the fellow- 

 feeling between these and the stomach, by means 

 of the vena porta, one of the large blood-vessels, 

 descending. The ball prescribed at page 185 may 



