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INTERMITTENT FEVER IN THE HORSE 
that he learned from his father, whatever be the state of his flock, 
and whatever the state of the season ; and to this must be added 
—the most absurd, and the most injurious of all—a spirit of 
fatalism ; a submission, not without repining, but without an 
effort to avert them, to many and serious losses, which a little 
care and personal trouble might have prevented.” 
Extract#. 
Cases of Intermittent Fever in the Horse 
assuming a Quotidian Type. 
Bij M. Clichy, Veterinary Surgeon at Joinville. 
Having given, during the last year, the history of a case of 
intermittent fever assuming a quotidian type in the horse, which 
I treated and cured with Peruvian bark, I feel myself called upon 
to record four other cases of the same disease, because in these 
the cinchona was superseded by sulphate of quinine. No one 
can be ignorant of the essentially febrifuge properties of this 
last drug ; and experience has already proved, that it possesses 
them in a much greater degree than the bark, and that in all cases 
it ought to be preferred. Thus, in the first place, by means of 
this medicine the cure is always more prompt and certain ; 
secondly, it is much more easily administered; thirdly, if we 
have to treat a patient the mucous membrane of whose stomach 
is irritable, it can be administered in clysters, and the results will 
be the same as if it acted immediately on the mucous membrane 
of the stomach ; fourthly and lastly, on calculation, I find this 
treatment less expensive than with the cinchona. 
Before entering on this matter, I ought to testify my gratitude 
to my estimable friend, Dr. Genet, the surgeon of our town ; as 
it is to him that I am indebted for attempting this fortunate 
innovation on veterinary therapeutics. At his suggestion I first 
used the sulphate of quinine ; and I had the advantage of his 
advice, both in the ordinary course of treatment and the mode of 
administering this drug, i call it a fortunate innovation, as the 
results of the following cases will clearly prove. 
Case I.—In the beginning of September, 1828, an entire horse, 
of the Pereheronne breed, about five years old, of a muscular frame, 
and in tolerable condition, belonging to M. Badin, of Poupry, 
was brought to me, because for the last two or three davs he 
had been regularly seized, about ten o’clock in the morning, with 
universal shiverings, and had refused to eat, and lay down at the 
