The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

COURSE of Medicine

,—so called where the case is chronic, requiring a rectification in the animal œconomy, or an alteration in the property of the blood. Chronic cases are disorders of some continuance, (producing symptoms of disquietude more than of danger,) and are thus called to distinguish them from those which, proceeding rapidly, terminate sooner, and with more alarm. Cholic, STRANGURY, FEVER, &c. in horses, are acute diseases: on the contrary, grease, surfeit, and some others, may with propriety be termed CHRONIC, and can only be completely eradicated by such course of medicine as shall be considered applicable to the state of the frame, and the origin of the disease.