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the nostrils. The animal expresses great anxiety in his look, 
and turns his head frequently and hurriedly round towards 
his flanks, more especially to that side where the inflammation 
has settled. He stands in a straddling manner, with his 
fore legs generally considerably apart. He seldom lies down, 
and when he does so it is but for a few minutes, remaining 
for days on his legs. 
It does not, however, always happen that the premonitory 
symptoms are the same, for in many cases inflammation 
comes on slowly and in an insidious manner. Perhaps the 
horse may be off his feed and his coat mil stare ; his breath¬ 
ing may be but slightly accelerated and abbreviated, with 
the legs a little colder than usual. Sometimes inflammation 
of the lungs is preceded by symptoms which are attendant 
upon common fever, catarrh, or the distemper. In such 
instances the true disease manifests itself in its full force 
when the groom or master of the horse least suspects it. 
The first manifestations are coldness in the limbs and ears, 
accompanied by the flurried pulsation and anxious look, with 
a seeming dread of lying down. This is soon followed by an 
irregularity and indistinctness in the pulse, and extreme 
coldness affects the legs and ears. The nostrils become livid 
—he hardly seems to breathe—he grinds his teeth—and 
these may be regarded as the too certain symptoms of disso¬ 
lution ; staggering ensues, and he finally sinks in his stall. 
This last is a picture of that kind of inflammation of the 
lungs which has lurked in the constitution without exhibit¬ 
ing premonitory symptoms, and which in most cases proves 
fatal. There are, besides, cases in which the disease is so 
rapid that it will have undergone its entire stages in twenty- 
four hours. In this short time the entire mass of the lungs 
will have suffered complete destruction. Such a case has 
been satisfactorily proved not to proceed from long and 
