THE 
ILLUSTRATED HORSE DOCTOR. 
CHAPTER I. 
THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM—THEIR ACCIDENTS AND THEIR 
DISEASES. 
PHRENITIS. 
Phrenitis implies inflammation of the brain. Madness and extreme 
violence are the consequences. The animal, in this condition, disregards 
all recognitions, and, apparently, loses all timidity. It suffers the 
A HORSE MAD, OR WITH INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 
greatest agony, and no terror can appal it. It would rejoice, could it 
anticipate the effects, if the mouth of a loaded cannon were pointed 
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