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INTERMITTENT FEVER IN THE HORSE 
thicker ; the pulse less frequent, the swelling and pain of the 
belly diminished; the skin not so dry, and the respiration freer. 
—The same treatment, excepting the bleeding. 
On the eleventh and twelfth days, the patient continued in the 
same state; the oppression of the breathing, however, was 
rather greater.— The same treatment as on the preceding days. 
The thirteenth day, diminution of all the symptoms. The 
tongue still covered with a thicker fur than in the natural state. 
The fourteenth day, the pulse good; the belly no longer tucked 
up; the urine natural; but the respiration somewhat laborious, 
with cough ; the appetite good.—Barley water, simple clysters, 
and walking exercise. 
On the sixteenth day, at about nine in the morning, the patient 
was seized with shiverings, which lasted about half an hour; the 
pulse raised ; depressed breathing and cough ; but otherwise the 
tongue was clean, and the belly was not painful, and had returned 
to its ordinary size. 
On the seventeenth day, there was marked augmentation of 
the fever, the oppression, and the cough.—Bleeding from the ju¬ 
gular, emollient electuaries and clysters. 
On the eighteenth day, exacerbation of the symptoms.—The 
same treatment as yesterday. 
On the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first days, there was 
no abatement of the symptoms : the pulse frequent and strong; 
the cough hard and frequent, the respiration spasmodic and short, 
the tongue and skin'very dry.—The same treatment; blisters on 
the loins and back. 
On the twenty-second and twenty-third days, the state of the 
animal was ameliorated: the pulse was less frequent; the respi¬ 
ration easier, and the blisters had excited a lively irritation.— 
Emollient and slightly acidulated medicines were administered in 
honey; simple clysters. 
Good fortune is too frequently treacherous. The horse would 
have been completely cured in eight or ten days more, if on the 
twenty-ninth day he had not been attacked by an intermittent 
fever of a quotidian type. 
On this day (the twenty-ninth of the disease), at nine o’clock 
in the morning, the animal was seized with pains difficult to de¬ 
scribe : he supported himself alternately on each of his four feet; 
turned himself to the right and left; lay down and then sud¬ 
denly rose again ; rested his nose on the litter or on the edge 
of the manger, then quickly assumed another position. He 
remained in this state twelve or fifteen minutes, after which he 
leaned his head firmly on the edge of the manger, and remained 
quiet: but he was soon seized with a general shivering, which 
