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for quittor. Before matter forms, the horn should be reduced, and 

 the foot should be placed in a cold bran poultice. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 



Fevers — Anasarca — Glanders — -Farcy. 



FEVERS. 



The horse is very rarely subject to fever as a disease of itself, 

 independently of inflammation, under which head I have already 

 described catarrhal fever, both of the simple kind and when epi- 

 demic, and known as influenza. Indeed, all the important inflam- 

 mations of the body are attended with fever; but in them the 

 local affections are evidently more serious than the general disturb- 

 ance of the system, which we call by the name of fever. By many 

 veterinarians it is doubted whether fever ever shows itself in the 

 horse without inflammation; but occasionally it may be observed 

 under the form of simple fever, presenting all the symptoms 

 which accompany ordinary inflammation, but without any such 

 complication, and more rarely of the typhoid form, which now 

 sometimes attends influenza and other epidemics. 



Simple fever shows itself by dulness and reluctance to move, 

 a staring coat, and cold legs and feet, with increased warmth of 

 the body. The pulse is quick, soft, and variable — breathing a little 

 accelerated, but not much — appetite entirely lost — bowels confined, 

 and urine scanty. These symptoms continue for two or three 

 days, and then either go on into the typhoid form, or they are 

 complicated by inflammation in some organ of the body. The 

 treatment merely consists in giving a mild dose of physic, followed 

 by a febrifuge drink, such as the following : — ■ 



Take of Spirit of Nitrous Ether 1 oz. 



Nitre 3 to 5 drachms. 



Tincture of Ginger 2 drachms. 



Camphor Mixture 6 oz. 



Mix, and give twice a day.* 



Typhoid fever sometimes appears as an epidemic, occurring 

 either as a sequel to influenza, or in its pure form, without any 



* Nothing in the veterinary Materia Medica will cure fever so certainly 

 and successfully as aconite ; and for this purpose give 10 to 15 drops of the 

 tincture of the root two to three, times in the twenty-four hours, and allow 

 plentv of pure air and cold water. — Editor. 



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