156 Diseases of the Horse. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE JUGULAR VEIN— PHLEBITIS, 



This generally occurs as a consequence on opening the vein 

 for bleeding, either because the surgeon has used a rusty or 

 dirty lancet, or that the horse has rubbed and injured the 

 vein after the operation. 



The inflammation may be confined to a small spot, or may 

 extend up and down the vein, which will feel like a hard 

 cord underneath the skin of the neck, which will be hot and 

 inflamed to the touch, and evidently painful to the animal, 

 especially on bending his neck. 



Treatment. — The best treatment for this complaint is the 

 application of a smart cantharides blister along the course of 

 the inflamed part. If abscesses have formed, they must be 

 opened and washed out with carbolic acid water (one ounce 

 of carbolic acid to a pint of water), before the blister is 

 applied. But after this is done, the blister should be applied 

 as directed. 



Inflammation of this vein always ends by transforming it 

 into an impervious cord, so the recommendation is made that 

 horses which have suffered from it should not be turned out 

 to grass, as the dependent position of the head in grazing 

 and the insufiicient channels for the return of the blood from 

 the head, bring on dropsical swellings of the face, li^^s and 

 nostrils. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE ABSORBENT VESSELS— LYMPHANGITIS- 

 WEED— SHOT OF GEiiASE. 



Definitioil. — By these various names is known a disease 

 which commences by inflammation of the lymphatics, or ab- 

 sorbent vessels of the hind legs, the inflammation extending 

 to the cellular tissue, becoming chronic, and producing per- 

 manent effusions and swelling of :he limb. 



Causes. — Weed is generally attributed to high feeding and 



