350 COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERLNARY ART. 



Fever,' 



In the former editions of this work, fever 

 was C'jnsidered either as a simple or original 

 complaint, arising from suddenly suppressed 

 or checkevi perspiration, or as a symptcmatic or 

 complicated disease, depending upon an af- 

 fection of one or more of the internal organs, 

 or their membranes. In botli cases bleeding 

 was recommended as an essential remedy. 

 My practice since that time has not given me 

 reason to change this opinion materially; but 

 as some modern writers on farriery have de- 

 scribed another kind of fever, termed putrid, 

 or typhiiSy in which bleeding is extremely 

 injurious, I think it necessary to state the 

 observations, which an extensive practice has 

 suggested to me on this subject. The grand 

 characteristic of fever I conceive to be, an 

 unusually quick pulse, /. e. from seventy to 

 a hundred in a minute; a peculiar kind of 

 sensation wliich it oives to the finL'^er, as if it 

 were struck sharply by the vibration of a 

 cord; and at the savne time a feebleness, or 

 smallness, quite different from that gradual 

 swell of the healthy pulse. When a horse 

 labours under considerable debility, either 



