40 COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERINARY ART. 



want of proper exercise : sometimes, however, 

 a sudden transition from a cold to a hot tem- 

 perature is evidently the cause of it. In this 

 respect it is different from the simple fever, 

 which, as before observed, sometimes arises 

 from exposing a horse suddenly to cold air, 

 when he has been accustomed to a warm 

 stable. Horses that are taken from camp or 

 grass, and put suddenly into warm stables, 

 are extremely liable to those internal inflam- 

 mations on which symptomatic fever depends, 

 and many thousands fall victims to this kind 

 of treatment. 



When a fever is symptomatic, it is not pre- 

 ceded by shivering, nor is it so sudden in its 

 attack as the simple fever : but when it is not 

 subdued by an early application of remedies, 

 the symptoms gradually increase in violence, 

 until they present a very formidable appear- 

 ance. When the disease, however, is occa- 

 sioned by great and long continued exertion, 

 it generally comes on suddenly ; and the com- 

 plaint has a very dangerous appearance in its 

 earliest stage. 



The symptomatic fever has many symptoms 

 in common with the simple fever, wnich are, 

 loss of appetite, quick pulse, dejected appear- 



