I20 THE FARM DOCTOR. 



may be compressed for a time until tlie wound is closed with 

 lymph, a simple pad and compress being used, or the silver 

 wire and cork as advised for arteries. 



PHLEBITIS. INFLAMMATION OF VEINS. 



This usually results from opening a vein with a rusty fleam 

 or lancet, making the incision at the dilated part, just above a 

 valve, pulling out the skin in inserting the pin so as to cause a 

 flow of blood into the tissues beneath, leaving hairs or other 

 irritants in the wound, or pinning the lips awry. 



Symptoms. — Swelling of the wound, gaping and redness of the 

 lips, and the formation of a hard, painful cord along the line of 

 the vein in an upward direction where the blood is necessarily 

 stagnant and in contact with the clot already formed. The 

 exudation may be fibrinous, with a tendency to contraction and 

 ob' iteration of the vein, or suppuration may occur, in which 

 case the matter must escape externally. Clots may be detached 

 and washed on to plug the arteries in the lungs, and rouse 

 pneumonia, or perfect recovery may take place with loss of the 

 vein, and a tendency to swelling of the part from which it 

 comes, when that is in a dependent position. 



Treatment. — If from an inflamed wound after bleeding, take 

 out the pin, remove hair, pus, clotted blood, or other irritant, 

 and foment with warm water. Then rub in, at an inch distant 

 from tlie wound and along the course of the hardened vein, an 

 active blister (Spanish flies 2 drs., lard i oz.), and tie the animal 

 to the two sides of the stall, so that he cannot rub the part. If 

 a vein is lost in the neck, never again turn out to grass. 



DIFFUSE PHLEBITIS 



Resulting from an irritated or poisoned external wound, or in 

 the womb after parturition, is usually fatal, the clots forming on 

 the inflamed lining membrane being washed on in greater or 

 less amount, to set up inflammation in the lungs and else\yhere. 



