140 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



REMEDIES AND DIRECTIONS. 



INFLAMMATION. 



From hiflainmo, to burn. This is one of the most 

 common forms of disease presented to the veterinary- 

 surgeon, and regarding which many erroneous opin- 

 ions have prevailed, in consequence of which much 

 injury and often serious consequences have resulted. 

 Sound medical practice must be based upon sound 

 medical principles. A correct understanding of the 

 term inflammation will assist us very materially in 

 understanding the pathology of diseases in their most 

 common forms. A few years since every form of 

 disease occurring in our domestic animals was re- 

 garded and treated as some form of inflammation. 

 Purging and bleeding were the order of the day. How 

 different the practice of the present day, especially 

 during the last ten years! 



The manner in which inflammation has been written 

 upon has made it a subject perfectly bewildering to 

 the general reader, and from its being associated w^ith 

 everything in actual practice, no idea of a very definite 

 kind with regard to it will for a long time occur to 

 his mind. With a view to overcome this difficulty, we 

 will give the most simple definitions of the term "in- 

 flammation." It is an unnatural and perverted action 

 of and in the capillary blood-vessels, attended with 

 redness, throbbing, swelling, pain, heat, and disorder 

 of functions, with change in both its fluid and solid 

 constituents, as well as with more or less general dis- 

 turbances of the system, 



