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of the animal and the violence of the disease, 

 and employed at it's first appearance. Se- 

 veral cases have occurred where debility 

 quickly succeeded the inflammatory com- 

 mencement, and rendered bleeding, some- 

 times purging also, highly improper; and it is 

 perhaps such cases, that some writers have mis- 

 taken for the typhus, or low putrid fever : others 

 appear to me to have copied their description 

 of it from that oiven bv writers on human 

 diseases. 



In cases of simple debility I have found 

 the following medicines of gre?-t use, giving 

 the laxative in the first place if the horse be 

 costive, or even if the bowels be in a natural 

 state: during it's operation, however, it is 

 advisable to give strong gruel instead of bran 

 mashes. 



