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the coat, the skin feeling as if stuck to the 

 ribs ; and the animal continues in a state of 

 weakness. After some time the inflammation 

 gener^illy returns, and then speedily ends in 

 death. It sometimes happens that the inflam- 

 mation terminates in suppuration ; in tliis case 

 also the fever is in some degree lessened, and 

 the horse besoms to feed a little: but he still 

 remains in a very feeble state, has a weak 

 couofh, and discharoes fetid matter from his 

 nostrils ; at length the disease again becomes 

 violent, and soon puts a period to his suf- 

 ferings. 



The first thing to be done, when this dan- 

 gerous disease is observed, is to bleed copiously, . 

 even till the horse begins to faint from loss of 

 blood. I hav^e seen six quarts drawn at one 

 operation, and with the best effect ; sometimes 

 indeed the disease will be completely subdued 

 by thus bleedinir freelv at its commencement. 

 Should the horse be costive, or even if the 

 bowels be in a natural state, it will be ad- 

 visable to give a pint of castor oil, and inject 

 a clyster of water-gruel. It will then be ne- 

 cessary, in order to divert the inflammation 

 from this important organ, to insert rowels 

 about the chest and belly, and to blister the 



