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TYPHUS FEVEll IN THE HORSE. 
able omen, considering them as metastatic; but I was deceived, 
for I lost every patient in which they appeared. 
In this affection the entire economy feels the shock, the influ¬ 
ence of temperament alone prevailing ; thus I have seen neurosis 
and paraplegia. The paraplegic patient retaining the use of his 
fore quarters, sits upon his hips without the power of erecting him¬ 
self. One typhoid patient I attended, to which I had been called 
in late, had the neck incurvated upon the right shoulder. 
The Alterations in the Blood consist in deterioration 
of its best qualities. As, containing regenerating elements in 
health, it nourishes and preserves the tone of organs, reduced to 
poverty it but deteriorates and renders them soft. When drawn, 
the blood looks discoloured, coagulates with extreme tardiness, 
and instead of becoming a black clot, but half coagulates; the 
serum eventually being redundant. One would think that this 
affection was really a dropsical one ; for if a seton be introduced, 
a pale red fluid escapes in a stream, which does not stain the parts 
it runs over, but from its continuing, alarms first the proprietor 
of the horse, then the veterinarian, who finds it expedient to 
employ compression to arrest a hemorrhage, ever auguring evil to 
the patient. 
Prognostic .—Whenever such symptoms as we have been 
describing manifest themselves, the prognostic becomes unfavour¬ 
able. Thus, by way of example, I have never seen horses recover 
that have had epistaxis or abscess. Certain subjects there are, how¬ 
ever, in which the symptoms are mild and benignant: these 
recover, though they continue a long while convalescent, and the 
slightest work fatigues them. And then, even edematous swell¬ 
ings will make their appearance, extending along the belly from 
the breast to the sheath. 
Duration .—I have had horses die of this disease the day after 
I was called to them ; others have died at the end of eight or ten 
days; some have survived to the fifteenth or twentieth day, and 
others have lived a month. For the most part it may be remarked, 
that the services of the veterinarian are not required beyond the 
seventh or eighth day from the setting in of the malady. 
Age .—I have met with very young subjects typhoid. I have 
had no very aged ones to treat. The disease seems to attack 
those in particular between the ages of five and twelve. 
Sex. —Indifferently, male or female. 
Autopsies .—I have made many; and yet it appears I have 
not made enough, since I have not been able to discover all the 
lesions recorded by human surgeons; for example, I have not been 
able to fix the different periods of eruption in the manner they 
have observed them. 
