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and irregular; indeed, this latter character of pulse, namelv its 
irregularity of action, has been constantly marked, an intermit- 
tent pulse being very common with, in bad cases, increasing 
frequency and debility of tone. If the pulse becomes more 
regular in its action, l always consider it a favourable symp- 
tom, and in that case its frequenc} r is only a secondary consi- 
deration. Should the pulse, however, remain somewhat about 
80 for many days, and withal feel corded and wiry, though the 
other symptoms appear ever so favourable, we must hesitate 
before we give an opinion of convalescence — deep-seated mis- 
chief being likely to be going on. The general lively appear- 
ance of the animal is, however, a pretty safe guide in common 
cases, and there is something in the whole appearance of the 
patients which, to those used to watch them, tells pretty correctly 
at a glance how matters stand. The appetite is at first only 
slightly affected; but, as the disease progresses, all food is 
refused. Debility also comes on very quickly, and in some 
cases to a surprising extent. When the animal is made to 
move, he straddles with his hind legs to increase his base of 
support, or even totters about his box. The legs and sheath 
sometimes swell very much, even to an alarming extent; and 
frequently in mares, the udder and along the belly. The eye- 
lids also are at first slightly tumefied, and the conjunctiva 
injected ; they then become much swollen, and when inverted 
shew that their lining surfaces are pale and swelled out, as it 
were, in a bag, from infiltrated serum. These swellings, how- 
ever, are by no means dangerous, and cases tending to a fatal 
termination do not usually exhibit them — the mischief is then 
deeper seated. The eyes are at first hazy and dim, and weep- 
ing ; but as the disease progresses the anterior chamber becomes 
filled with lymph, and in bad cases with effused blood, and I 
have seen them apparently to be one mass of blood ; and this is 
no deception, since such has really proved to be the case in my 
examination of them after death. In bad cases, the head is 
usually pendant, with the eyelids closed and very much swelled. 
Altogether, indeed, the animal looks wretched, quite the “ pic- 
ture of misery.” The dung is voided in small quantities, and is 
round and knobby, and generally more or less slimy, and some- 
times covered with mucus. The urine is pale, and voided 
frequently and scantily ; but as the disease progresses it be- 
comes high coloured, and in bad cases tinged with blood and 
mucus. The breathing is, fortunately, very little accelerated : 
I only found it violently affected in two cases, which will here- 
after be noted; and they both died from attacks of laminitis, 
after all danger from the original disease had, to casual ob- 
servers, passed away. The animal is not disinclined to lie down; 
