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Typhus and typhoid are words but rarely heard in our own 
country in connexion with veterinary, or at least with hippiatric, 
medicine. Our old writers on farriery described fevers in horses 
as hectic , intermitting, continual, malignant, and pestilential] but 
Coleman exploded such doctrine, shutting out fever altogether 
from veterinary pathology. By degrees, however, even during 
Coleman’s reign, in the face of his ex cathedra exclusion, has 
fever been again creeping into our nosology. Nay, by many of 
the contemporaries of Coleman who had sprung out of the old 
school of farriery, never indeed had fever in horses been dis- 
carded. Still the Colemanites soon becoming more powerful in 
number and importance, and more medically learned as a body 
than the remnants of the old school, put to silence the fever doc- 
trine ; and no more was heard about it until certain members of 
the new school, from sheer opposition and experience, became con- 
vinced of the reality of what Coleman had denied to exist, and 
once again introduced fever into our veterinary nosology. It was 
said that the horse was, most unquestionably, on occasions, the 
subject of fever, and of fever in two forms, idiopathic as well as 
symptomatic . And here the matter seemed to end. No mention 
was made of any other description of fever. Still, among the 
descendants from the school of farriery there was another fever 
spoken of — a fever altogether of a different type from those re- 
cognised afresh, and to which, from its prominent character and 
evident tendency, they gave the name of low fever. This was no 
other than a typhoid affection. Although, however, it may from 
this undeniable fact be argued that veterinary science in our own 
country has never been without representatives who have acknow- 
ledged the existence of fever in both its high and low forms ; still, 
is it equally a fact, one fairly inferrible from French and English 
writers on horse medicine, that either typhoid fevers are more 
common among horses on the continent than in Britain, or that 
French veterinarians are much narrower observers of the maladies 
of horses than we are. With a “ memoir” on the subject in ques- 
tion before us, and particularly as this professes to exhibit no more 
than a plain narrative of the symptoms, causes, treatment, &c. of 
n typhoid affections,” it will be in our power, by the translation of 
certain passages into our own pages, to enable our veterinary 
