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wounds, and particularly those of joints, will 

 also produce symptomatic fever. Sometimes 

 several of the internal parts are inflamed at the 

 same instant ; und indeed when inflammation 

 has existed for a considerable leno-th of time, 

 it is seldom confined to the orptm in which it 



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originated ; the disease spreads to other vis- 

 cera ; and when more than one organ is in- 

 flamed, thoUymptoms will generafly be com- 

 phcated : still, however, the essential remedies 

 are the same, that is to say, copious and early 

 bleeding, with rowels and blisters. 



Having no^v given a general description of 

 S3'mptomatic fever, I shall proceed to treat of 

 those cases separately to which above I have 

 briefly alluded. ^ 



Inflammation of the Lungs, 



This is a verv dano^erous disease, and one 

 to which horses are extremelv liable: the fre- 

 quency of its occurrence is occasioned by im- 

 proper management, and not by any natural 

 defect in the constitution of the animal : it 

 may therefore be prevented by proper atten- 

 tion HI the groom. Medical writers make a 



