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be blistered ; but unless the blistered part is well 

 covered up with a cloth, and also something put 

 round the neck to prevent him getting at it with his 

 mouth, he will tear it off, and the pastern will then 

 for ever remain denuded of hair. 



INFLAMMATION UNDISCOVERABLE 



would not be so common, if people would only take the 

 trouble to read over quietly the different inflamma- 

 tions in the stable, in presence of their horse when 

 reported sick ; yet some, who do take that trouble, are 

 often in such a fright, if the horse is valuable, or in 

 such a hurry, that they fail in catching the symptoms 

 indicative of the part affected. 



If the lungs are the seat the purple nostril ; the 

 stiff fixed standing, with the forelegs rather apart ; 

 and the deathly claylike coldness of the ears and legs, 

 are the principal distinguishing signs. 



If the bowels the redness of the eyelids, when 

 turned down ; the lying down and getting up again ; 

 and coldness of the ears and legs. 



If the liver there will be yellowness about the 

 eyes, added to the other symptoms of inflammation 

 of the bowels : and if you here make a mistake, the 

 treatment for this will possibly cure the other, al- 

 though, of course, not so well, nor so safely, as purg- 

 ing is dangerous when the bowels are the seat.* 



If the kidneys the stradling of the hind legs, and 

 shrinking on pressing the loins. 



* Not when your Aloes are good, and guarded with Opium. ED. 



