CHAP. I.] SYMPTOMS : CASE. 203 



Symptoms, the same as those in slow fever, mark 

 typhus fever, only the pulse is accelerated upon 

 taking the medicines just alluded to ; its irregularity 

 is also greater, until, by continuance of the disease, 

 it ceases to denote any particular state of the body 

 long together. Hence, the supply of new blood 

 carries with it similar effects, the vitals lose their 

 tone, and the muscular part of the system wastes 

 and becomes rotten on the bones ; and if the same 

 stimulating treatment has been kept up until the 

 animal dies, his flesh will be found on dissection to 

 have acquired an uncommonly bright purple colour, 

 not only on the surface, but wherever incision is 

 made. Putrescence, in a high degree, has already 

 taken place ere that catastrophe seals the sufferer's 

 fate ! Infection is to be sedulously avoided. 



We mention these minor circumstances to prove 

 the real existence of this main type of putrid fever. 

 Another symptom of typhus goes to the same proof, 

 namely, delirium, which follows a continuance of 

 stupidity discoverable in slow fever. A well-marked 

 case was reported in the Annals of Sporting, for 

 Nov. 1824; where it was shewn that the meat was 

 putrid in an extremely offensive degree, and wholly 

 " unfit even to be cast to the dogs." 



From the very unaffected and detailed account of 

 the narrator, it appears plain that unskilful persons 

 might be led to apprehend such paroxysms denoted 

 hydrophobia ; but a short inquiry into the habits of 

 the horse previous to its last delirium, would go a 

 good way to relieve the anxiety usually instilled into 



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