ON INFLAMMATION. 



CHAP. III. 



INFLAMMATION. 



Inflammation is more or less present in most 

 of the diseases to which the horse is subject, and 

 therefore a few general observations may not be 

 inapplicable here, and will, I trust, impress the 

 reader with the importance of attending to it 

 in the treatment of diseases. I shall first speak 

 of external inflammation, Avhich is known to 

 have taken place by the part being swollen and 

 tense ; by increased sensibility and an increased 

 heat in the spot ; and when the parts covering the 

 inflamed vessels are thin and more transparent, 

 redness is also perceptible, as in inflammation of 

 the eyes, nose, &c. These are then the marks which 

 distinguish external inflammation. In strains, 

 wounds, bruises, and other local affections treated 

 of in this book, the injured parts sooner or later 

 become tumefied, tense, feel hotter than usual, and 

 the animal fl.inches when the fingers are pressed 

 upon it. These symptoms indicate the presence of 

 inflammation in any part of tlie body, and induced 

 by whatever cause it may. The tumefaction is 

 partly owing to an increased quantity of blood ia 



