386 ABSCESS ON CHEST AND FASCIA : [BOOK H. 



and is so named from its position, anti against, and 

 cor the heart. The French words ante-cceur have 

 the same meaning, and are derived from the same 

 origin. It consists in an- inflamed swelling of the 

 breast near the heart, and the name is extended to 

 any other swelling from this part back under the 

 belly, even unto the sheath, which also swells : in 

 this event anticor is decidedly dropsical. 



Cause. — Full feeding without sufficient exercise, 

 similarly to this whole train of disorders. Hard 

 riding or driving, and subsequent exposure to the 

 elements, or giving cold water to animals that are 

 very fleshy in the forehand, as is the case with 

 the greater part of French horses ; these, combined 

 with a vitiated state of the blood, which is then 

 sizy, produce those extended swellings that partake 

 somewhat of the nature of the swelled limb in 

 grease, and yet terminate in abscess wdien the case 

 is a bad one. 



Symptorns. — An enlargement of the breast, which 

 sometimes extends upwards to the throat, and 

 threatens suffocation. The animal appears stiff 

 about the neck, looks dull and drooping, refuses 

 his food, and trembles or shivers with the inflam- 

 mation, which may be felt. Pulse dull and uneven. 

 By pressing two or more fingers alternately, the 

 existence of matter, or a disposition to suppurate, 

 may be ascertained (as in poll-evil) by its receding 

 from side to side as the pressure is withdrawn. On 

 the other hand, if the disease owes its origin to 

 dropsy, each pressure of the finger will remain 



