The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

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livid and it scarcely seems to breathe; it grinds its
teeth, and this may be regarded as a certain symptom
of dissolution. Staggering ensues, and it finally
sinks in its stall. Sometimes if in a loose box or yard
it will continue to walk round and round in a circle,
with its head slightly sideways. If the left lung is
aftected it will walk round on the right circle, always
keeping the left side on the outside of the circle, but
if the right lung is the seat of the attack it will walk
in a circle quite the reverse. When the horse begins
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walking
in this manner it is a bad siom, not one in
fifty ever recovering. This last is a picture of that
kind of inflammation that has lurked in the system
without exhibiting premonitory symptoms, and which
in most cases proves fatal. Again, there are cases in
which the disease is so rapid that it will have under-
gone its entire stages in twenty-four hours, and in
this short time the entire mass of the lungs will have
suffered complete destruction. Such a case has been
satisfactorily proved not to proceed from long and
deep-rooted inflammation, but assuredly from tiie
very reverse. It has been caused by the extraordi-
nary degree of inflammation bursting the coating of
the vessels and filling the air-cells with blood, thus
instantly destroying their functions. There are bad
cases which are not so rapid in their termination, but
which are nevertheless equally fatal. This happens
when no rupture of the vessels has taken place, and
although means have been adopted to take off the
pressure of the inflammation, yet they have been
insufficient to produce the desired effect. In such a-