8 PRIVATE PRESCRIPTIONS 
narian, it is a perfect understanding of {the pulse. The 
pulse is the barometer by which we are governed in the ad- 
ministration of medicines in all internal diseases. It isev- 
idence of the circulation of the blood which passes through 
the arteries at the rate of about ninety feet per minute. It 
is the key to the nervous system, for the circulation is pro- 
duced and its volume regulated by the sympathetic nerves. 
The pulse indicates the condition of the heart, and whether 
or not disease is of a depressed or exalted character. In 
inflamations and fevers the frequency of the pulse is in- 
creased according to stage of the disease. In debilitated 
conditions we find it usually depressed, but some times 
quick, then natural. The normal or pulse of health in the 
full grown horse is from 33 to 36, and in rare instances, 40 
beats per minute. In young stock it is more frepuent. - 
under one year of age it runs from 42 to 48 beats per min- 
ute. There are many places at which the pulse can be 
gotten, but the best place for taking it is, in my judgment, 
from the submaxillary artery as it passes on the inner an- 
gle of the lower jaw, this being the most convenient We 
have many pulse variations which will be fully treated un- 
der the heads of the diseases in ‘which ime, 
prevail. 
TEMPERATURE. 
When we speak of the temperature of a hrose, we do so 
with reference solely to the amount of heat prevailing in 
the economy of the animal. Through the agency of a ther- 
mometer, and by no other means, are we able to secure the 
correct temperature of a horse. To take temperature in- 
sert clinical thermometer in rectum, always turning ti to 
