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

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they being the first who discerned and had the moral
courage to propagate this great truth. Influenza is an
Italian word, meaning influence. Its primary action is
direct upon the nervous system, and secondly upon the
vascular system. The animal appears to be suddenly
deprived of the requisite quantity of vigour or vital
stimulus necessary for the due performance of the vital
actions. I am of opinion that the whole system suffers
alike, not only the vital organs, viz., the brain, heart,
lungs, liver, &c, but every living tissue in the whole
frame is deficient in nerve force or animal electricity.
The first observable symptoms are cold skin, loss of
appetite, dulness, listlessness, pulse small and feeble,
varying from GO to 80 or even 100 in one minute
breathing not always disturbed, a prickling uneasiness in
the legs and feet, an excitable, susceptible state of the
bowels, voiding faeces frequently, which are soft and
scanty ; in some few cases we have spontaneous diarrhoea.
These symptoms are followed by swollen eyelids, weeping,
in some severe cases effusion of lymph into the chambers
of the eye. The mouth is not particularly hot, neither
are the membranes highly injected. There is more or less
swelling about the legs and fetlocks ; this is accompanied
by a morbid capillary action generally. It assumes and
proceeds in a uniform course, and not by natural and
stages. I feel no doubt many of these cases ex-
perience headache to a very great extent, from the
in which they will lay their heads upon your
breast and seem to find relief in their heads bein^ stroked.
In some cases for months after the attack, symptoms ap-
proaching to megrims hang about them, rendering them