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ing or other violent exercise, 2, fever is often 

 the consequence, which commonlydepends up- 

 on oreneral inflammation or increased action of 

 the whole arterial system. In this disease, na- 

 tiu'e sometimes makes an eftort to remove it; 

 that is, a violent purging takes place; the 

 mucus, which is constantly formed upon the 

 inner surface of the bowels in order to lubri- 

 cate and protect them from the action of any 

 acrimonious matter that may happen to be 

 passing through, is now formed in greater 

 quantity, and is often so abundant, as to ap- 

 pear something like fat mixed vvdth the dung. 

 When blood is drawn from a horse in this 

 state, a large quantity of the inflammatory 

 crust (the coaguluble lymph^ or buff-coloured 

 jelly, before described) appears on its surface*. 

 (See Bleeding.) 



* According to Mr. John Lawrence, molten grease cmisists in 

 a colliquation or general melting of the fat of the bodj, great par^ 

 of wlilch is. absorbed, and thrown upon the blood and upon the 

 iutcstines, whence it is voided with the excrement. Mr Blaine, in 

 his Treatise on Veterinary Medicine, has called this explanation 

 of the disease an absurdity ! and though I feel all due respect 

 for the efforts of Gibson, Bracket!, and Baitlet,- as well as for 

 their commentator and panegyrist, Mr. John Lawrence, I am 

 tompelled by experience, and the knowledge I have obtained (sf 

 tbo iinimal economy from the valuable instructions of those emi*' 



