_Symptoms._ There is the early symptom of shivering followed by a hot stage in which the limbs participate and partial sweats bedew the surface. There are first uneasy movements of the fore limbs with some lifting of the flanks and this discomfort increases until the patient is panting with pain and occasionally glancing round at his heaving flanks and even pawing as in colic. If the pleurisy is confined to one side the corresponding fore limb is often advanced before the other. The temperature is 102° and upward. The pulse is quick, hard and incompressible being usually compared to a jarred wire and beats from 48 to over 60 per minute. The breathing is highly characteristic. It is hurried, is carried on chiefly by the abdominal muscles to avoid the rubbing of the inflamed pleuræ on each other, and has the inspiration short and suddenly checked by an audible closure of the glottis while the expiration is slow and prolonged. This character of the breathing is well observed when the ear is placed against the false nostril. The laboring abdominal muscles stand out as a ridge from the outer angle of the ilium along the lower ends of the last ribs (pleuritic ridge). A tremor on this line is often noticeable in the early stages. It may also be felt by the hand laid on the costal region. The horse does not stand obstinately still as in pneumonia, but frequently moves as if seeking an easier posture. The short, hacking cough contrasts with the deep, rare cough of pneumonia. The expired air is not so hot, nor the mucous membrane of the nose so red as in the last named disease and there is no nasal discharge. A twitching of the muscles of the chest is sometimes seen and if the intercostal muscles are pressed upon, the animal winces and frequently grunts. This last symptom is likewise seen in rheumatic disease of the intercostal muscles (pleurodynia) but the absence of the fever, the cough, and other chest symptoms sufficiently distinguish this. Auscultation detects in the early stages in addition to a healthy respiratory murmur, a friction sound audible in inspiration only in short jerks near the close of the act and comparable to the rubbing of the palm of one hand over the other laid over the ear, but this is no longer heard when effusion of liquid has taken place into the pleuræ. Percussion in the early stages detects no change from the healthy chest resonance.