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to be productive of a fatal result to the animal, simply from 

 the difficulty of determining its precise seat, or even being at 

 an certain of its existence. 



CATAEEH. 



One of the common affections to which horses are subject is 

 that of Catarrh, or common cold. Sometimes it prevails upon 

 a number of horses, over a large extent of country, when it is 

 denominated Influenza, or H^izootic Catarrh; but when it 

 occurs locally, and in isolated instances, it is denominated 

 Common Cold, Catarrh, Catarrhal JPever, etc. 



Symptoms.— Common Cold generally localises its effects in 

 the head, or windpipe, or chest. The animal is feverish ; he 

 readily perspires upon slight exertion. The pulse is altered, 

 generally beating from fifty to sixty per minute, and feeble : 

 occasionally it will reach even as high as seventy. The breath- 

 ing is also more or less disturbed ; the respirations will vary 

 from fifteen to thirty times per minute; the breath wiU. be 

 hotter ; and the breathing very superficial. The limbs are cold, 

 or they are hot and cold in turns ; or sometimes two of the 

 limbs wiU. be cold, and the other two of a feverish heat. The 

 eyes are dull and weeping ; the animal dozes and yawns a good 

 deal ; he also coughs occasionally, and sneezes, or gives forth 

 a cough and a sneeze at the same time. In some instances the 

 throat is sore, attended with difficulty of swallowing; the 

 appetite is also bad ; a watery fluid is discharged from the nos- 

 trils, or in many instances semi-fluid of a bluish colour, which 

 either disappears, or towards the end gradually becomes puru- 

 lent ; the urine is high-eoloured and scanty ; and the dung is 

 voided in small portions, and glazed. 



