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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 
When attended with any degree of fever, the following 
should be administered twice or thrice a day instead of the 
above:— 
Digitalis 
Nitre 
Emetic tartar 
1 drachm, 
3 drachms, 
1^ drachm. 
FEVER. 
Symptoms. —Fever commences with a cold and shivering 
fit; the animal manifests great dullness, with a desire to be 
inactive; his hair stands erect, or stares, and his legs and 
feet are cold; the pulse is quick, hard, and unequal; his 
mouth is hot, with a total loss of appetite, shivering, and a 
dejected appearance. This is followed by general warmth 
of the body ; an unequal distribution of heat to the limbs, 
sometimes one being hot while the other is cold. He 
becomes very costive, with turbid urine ; affected sometimes 
with colic pains; but there is no cough, pawing, or look¬ 
ing back at the loins. If these symptoms are allowed to 
proceed unchecked, the membrane that lines the eyelid 
becomes unnaturally red ; the inflammation may then be 
considered as settled in some internal organ, and pure or 
symptomatic fever will have ensued. While this pure 
fever continues, the shivering fit returns daily, at nearly the 
same hour, and is followed by a warm one, and sometimes 
by a cold clammy sweat. This state continues for several 
days, and local inflammation ensues ; or the fever gradually 
becomes abated. 
Some veterinary surgeons have absurdly denied the possi¬ 
bility of fever in the horse, but those who have advanced 
such an opinion must have paid but little attention to the 
state of his pulse. 
Causes. —General increased action in the heart and arteries 
