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CHAPTER III. 



Fever. 



1 HE fevers of horses bear very little analogy 

 to those of the human body, and require a dif- 

 ferent treatment. Writers on farriery have 

 described a great variety of fevers, but their 

 observations appear to have been drawn from 

 the works of medical authors, and their rea- 

 «:>ning seems entirely analogical. I can dis- 

 tinguish only two kinds of fever, the one, an 

 \<,liopathic or origii>al disease, and therefore 

 properly termed simple ; the other dependent 

 on ijiternal inflammation, and very justly de- 

 nominated symptomatic fever. For example, if 

 the lungs, bowels, or stomach were inflamed, 

 the whole system would be thrown into dis- 

 order, and a symptomatic fever produced : 

 bat if a collapse of the perspiring vessels 

 happen to take place, the blood will accu- 

 mulate in the interior parts of the body ; and 



