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directions. In case you should place a horse so affected, either in 

 a field next to your neighbor, or in his stable, and his horses be- 

 come affected, you will be liable to a suit at law for damages aris- 

 ing therefrom. From my experience in horse causes in the courts 

 of Philadelphia, it will be easier to bring a suit than to gain it, if 

 there be scientific witnesses on the stand, as the question will 

 arise, Was the disease, or was it not, communicated from the sick 

 horse so placed ? Obviously, these are questions more easily asked 

 than answered. 



Fatty Tumor. — (See Tumors.) 



Farrier. — Properly, this title belongs to the blacksmith, whether 

 a horse shoer, or of other branches of iron working, faher ferrarms ; 

 but from some idea or other, we hear of persons, otherwise well 

 informed, saying, when speaking of accident or sickness to horses, 

 to have or send for a. farrier. Now, what is there possessed by 

 workers in iron, that they should know any more about diseases 

 and their treatment than is possessed by a worker in wood ? Per- 

 sons of education should look into the etymology of a term, even 

 if it should be used by the mass of the people : for it is by the 

 language and general deportment, that a man of education is 

 known from his less learned prototype. 



Fever, Putrid. — (See Typhosus.) 



Fever, Sympathetic. — This variety of fever is that which is 

 produced by accident and disease. Thus, a horse gets a nail in 

 the sensitive part of the foot, excitement, or sympathetic fever is 

 an accompaniment. Lung disease is accompanied with fever, and 

 hence it is called lung fever. Fever in the feet is a common ex- 

 pression, signifying sympathetic fever. Indeed, it is a question in 

 my mind, whether fevers of all kinds are not to be attributed to 

 some local or general disturbance of some action or function of 

 the body. Thus, the many fevers which attack the human family 

 can readily be traced to a predisposing cause ; as, for example, 

 typhus fever is caused by insufficient ventilation, besieged towns 

 and garrisons, preventing the removal of exuvia. 



Fever in the Feet. — This is a common disease of horses in 

 large towns and cities, where the streets are paved with stone or 

 iron, whereby the concussion is very great, wiien horses arc ariveu 

 ^t. (See Founder.) 



