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and-twenty or six-and-tbirty hours will scarcely pass without 
the cure being completed, or the stomach ruptured, or the horse 
destroyed; and if it proceeds more from oppression of the diges¬ 
tive organs than absolute distention of the stomach, and from 
that sympathy which subsists between the stomach and the 
brain, the disease will go on; it will get worse and worse every 
hour, and this imperfect comatose state will remain during two 
or three days : but the apoplexy of the phrenitic horse will not 
often last many hours. 
Should he vigorously attacked in this early state. —Now is the 
time for exertion, and with fair hope of success. Bloodletting 
and physic being now carried to their full extent, the horse will 
be materially relieved, and often cured ; but if this golden hour 
should be suffered to pass, or if remedial measures should be now 
ineffectual, the scene all at once changes, and the most violent 
re-action succeeds. 
Later Symptoms. —The eye brightens—strangely so; the con¬ 
junctiva becomes suddenly reddened, and forms a frightful con¬ 
trast with the transparency of the cornea; the pupil is dilated to 
the utmost; the nostril, before scarcely moving, being left to 
the influence of the organic nerves alone, now expands and 
quivers, and labours; the respiration becomes short and quick; 
the ears erect or bent forward to catch the slightest sound, and 
the horse, becoming more irritable every instant, shakes and 
trembles at the slightest motion. 
The excessive violence of the Horse. —The irritability increases; 
it might be said to change to ferocity, but that the horse has no 
aim or object in what he does. He dashes himself violently 
about, plunges in every direction, rears on his hind legs, whirls 
round and round, and then falls backward with dreadful force. 
He lies for awhile exhausted; there is a remission of the symp¬ 
toms, perhaps only for a minute or two, possibly for a quarter of 
an hour. Now again is the surgeon’s time, and his courage and 
his adroitness will be put to the test. He must open, if he can, 
one or both jugulars; he may attempt, if he has time, to open 
the temporals also : but let him be on his guard, for the paroxysm 
will return with its former violence, and without the slightest 
warning. 
The second paroxysm is more dreadful than the first. Again 
the animal whirls round and round, and plunges and falls; he 
seizes his clothing and tears it to pieces; perhaps, destitute of 
feeling and of consciousness, he bites and tears himself. He 
darts furiously at every thing within his reach ; but no mind, no 
design, seems to mingle with and govern his fury. 
Closing Symptoms. —Another and another remission, and a 
