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(CAV.C.w) 



A 



COMPENDIUM 



OF THE 



VETERINARY ART, &c. 



CHAPTER L 



Introduction. 



1 HERE is scarcely a disease to wliic^li the 

 Horse is liable, that will not appear, upon a 

 strict examination, either to consist in, or to be 

 a consequence of inflammation, which, when it 

 attacks any of the internal organs, gives rise to 

 his most dangerous diseases : thus an inflam- 

 mation of the lungs, bowels, or any of the 

 internal parts, will produce that kind of de- 

 rangement in the system which is termed a fever, 

 the violence of which will be proportioned to 

 the degree and extent of the inflammation, and 

 the importance of the inflamed organ in the 



VOL. L B 



