224 cold : VARIOUS symptoms. [book II. 



to the lungs, described at section S3. The attack 

 upon this point of conjunction between the throat 

 and mouth, will be greatly accelerated by the injury 

 most horses sustain which have been subjected to 

 the brutal operation of being " coughed" by the 

 dealers ; — an injury that thus produces latent ef- 

 fects, though the pain were originally little, and that 

 little long ago departed. 



We hear this kind of first attack termed " a cold 

 in the head," the second symptom is " a cough," 

 and feel no disposition to quarrel with either term. 



In proportion that the attack may be more severe, 

 the symptoms increase, as does the danger. Passing 

 the hand down over the windpipe, at the epiglottis, 

 the animal will shrink if it be sore within, and 

 he will soon evince difficulty of swallowing, and 

 refuse his food : inflammation has begun. When 

 these are not preceded by a discharge from the 

 nose, this symptom does not appear until the inflam- 

 mation is lowered by bleeding and other remedies : 

 the discharge is then an indication that the inflam- 

 mation, or heat, has subsided, and no longer de- 

 mands the adjacent secretions. See page 74, 

 for a more minute description how this demand 

 takes place. 



With those symptoms of sore throat others be- 

 come apparent, and the whole assume a malign 

 tendency proportioned to the severity of the attack 

 and previous state of the suffering animal. As 

 happens in all other inflammatory complaints, the 

 pulse tells of the existence of fever, in its degree ; 



