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first watering-time, and green grass, lucern, or car- 

 rots, are always needed to recruit the strength ; but 

 nothing is more dangerous than surfeiting with any 

 kind of food after these attacks, in order to raise the 

 condition quickly. Starvation, that is, as far as keep- 

 ing the horse hungry, is the only safe system for ten 

 days after recovery : the muzzle must be used at 

 night if the appetite increases too quickly ; but if, on 

 the contrary, the appetite should flag, and the spirits 

 not revive in that time, the beer tonic, p. 109, should 

 be immediately resorted to ; and even if the recovery 

 is perfect, still, after ten days or so, a few mild beer 

 drenches should be given. There is no disease in 

 India, whether cold, fever, inflammation, or any other, 

 for which blood has been abstracted, and whether 

 the appetite is regained or not, that tonic stimulants, 

 of some kind, are not beneficial afterwards ; and the 

 beer tonic, in proper quantities, is as good as any ; the 

 danger consists in commencing it too early. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS is caused by sudden 

 changes from cold to heat, rarely, it is said, by the 

 contrary; by over riding; by drinking cold water 

 when hot, &c. It occasionally comes on quite sud- 

 denly : at other times the horse may have ailed a 

 day or more previous to the attack. 



Symptoms. Veterinary writers have fortunately 

 given us two symptoms, which mark this disease so 

 clearly, that by common attention we can generally 

 discover it : always, I may say, if not complicated with 

 any other disorder. " The legs and ears are cold ; of 

 a deathy coldness ; and the horse persists in standing, 

 or, if he lies down, it is only for two or three mi- 

 nutes." The pulse is oppressed, rising to seventy or a 



