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beating firom 60 to 70. or from 70 to SO times per minute ; the 

 breath is hot; the mouth is dry, or perhaps pietematnrally 

 moist, and offensive to the smell; the membrane ■nithiu the 

 nostrils is either pallid or of a lead-Hte hue : the coat will 

 stare; the limbs mil be of a variable temperature — two of 

 them cold, and the others pretematuraUy hot, or hot and cold 

 ia patches ; and the throat will perhaps be sore. The eyes are 

 either duU and heavy-looking, or the eyelids may present con- 

 siderable tumefaction, accompanied with a copious flow of hot 

 acrid tears. 



As the disease advances, the cough becomes worse, and the 

 throat more sore, attended with swelling at the junction of the 

 head and neck, and within the sub-maxillary space ; the appe- 

 tite may wholly disappear, and the bowels, in consequence, 

 secrete httle or nothing ; so that the bile, not being required 

 for the digestive and other functions within the economy, he- 

 comes absorbed into the system, and the mucous membranes 

 speedily present that yellowness so commonly manifested under 

 the circumstances. If the patient, at this stage of the disease^ 

 be made to walk a few yards, he will stagger and sway ficom 

 side to side, as though likely to fall at every step. 



Sometimes a purulent discharge manifests itself firom the 

 nose, which is not unfequently followed by relief to the sore- 

 ness of the throat ; while in others, again, such relief is not so 

 evident. The discharge, however, may in all cases be regarded 

 as a favourable issue. Should the malady be attended with 

 swelling in the region of the throat and within the snbmasillaty 

 space, such swelling will become larger, and the skin of the 

 part more tender, until matter is fully formed. If every care 

 be taken of the animal, at this stage of the malady, all may 

 pass off well, and leave the patient in the end little or none 

 the worse for the attack ; but if improperly treated, or he be- 



