THE HORSE, ITS DISEASES. 



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rx)w rubs the bitten part against anything convenient with increased 

 violence ; sometimes instead of rubbing he will bite and tear the wound ; 

 the eves assume a wilder and more unnatural appearance ; some patients 

 neigh squeakingly, shove out the tongue, or gnash the teeth. The progress 

 of the disease is now very rapid ; generally there is profuse sweating ; 

 there is suppression of the urine, and inflammation of the parts of 

 generation ; his countenance changes from a look of anxiety to one of 

 cunning and a sort of grinning ferocity, and there is an irrepressible 

 desire to bite man or animal — whatever living thing may be within reach ; 

 he gazes sometimes at an imaginary object and springs and snaps madly 

 at vacancy ; his propensity to destroy grows with his pain, and at last he 

 wreaks his fury upon inanimate objects — the manger, or trough, the 

 rack, whatever is seizeable in his stall is torn to pieces with his teeth or 

 smashed with his feet ; if not confined he darts ferociously at whatever 

 object of attack may present itself ; plunges about like a demon of 

 destruction, snorts, foams, sometimes uttering a kind of crying neigh, 

 and perhaps beats himself to death before the last and comparatively 

 kelpless stage ctjnes on. 



DBSTBDCTIYK IMPULSS OF BTDROPHOBIA. 



If not destroyed before the disease has run its course, paralysis, 

 usually confined to the loins and the hinder extremities, sets in, and 

 involves with it all those organs which depend for their nervous influence 

 upon the posterior portion of the spinal cord. Unable to stand upon the 

 hind legs, the animal will sit on his haunches, and strike and paw with 

 his fore feet. The suffering is sometimes rendered more terrible by 

 tenesmus or retching of the bowels, which seem dreadfully oppressed but 

 have lost the power to act, while the kidneys are fevered and torpid and 

 the urine cannot be voided. 



