El’IOEMIC CSTARRHAL FEVER. 
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The animal generally dies of high inflammation of the respiratory 
organs. A great many times, if not killed in the commencement 
of the inflammation, they will linger a long while, and dropsy 
of the chest will put an end to the animal. 
The cause of death in these cases is most generally laid to 
the medical attendant’s medicine, or he did not understand the 
case. They do not think how the animal was exposed, or the 
disease was working on the system for some time before any 
medical aid was called in to see the patient. 
I lost a horse this spring from this disease. When I was 
called by the owner to see the case he said, “ I was working my 
horse some days before in the three horse plow; a rain came np 
when I was plowing ; I did not go to the barn right away with 
the horses; they were warm and got wet; next day he com¬ 
menced to cough very bad. For two days before calling you, he 
coughed so I thought he would choke.” On examination I found 
the top of the wind pipe very sore, and the lung and pleura very 
badly affected. 
We often hear the remark made, “I have two or three horses 
or colts that are coughing very bad, and do not eat; if they do not 
soon get better I will call on you for medical treatment.” If 
nature begins to rally the animals make a slight recovery; but 
the disease is stubborn ; it does not entirely leave the system ; it 
causes a thickening in the membranes of the respiratory organs, and 
the animal has asthma and chronic bronchitis; which is produced 
in thousands of horses in this country. 
These cases could almost all have been cured in the commence¬ 
ment of the affection. Some cases that have been treated are 
left the same by being worked too soon, exposed again to the 
former influences before the system is prepared for the change, 
and they are left diseased through life. 
The symptoms vary some in its attack upon the animal. The 
first usually noticed is a short dry cough; next the animal is off 
his feed, seems sore in turning around, slight watery discharge 
from the nostrils, mouth hot and feverish, breathing heavy, draw¬ 
ing up his flanks. The animal is debilitating rapidly ; the parotid 
and sub-maxillary glands somewhat tumefied; the head of the 
