122 THE FARM DOCTOR. 



blood of deleterious products that should have been worked oft 

 by exercise. 



Symptoms. — There is shivering to a variable extent, but very 

 severe in the worst cases, greatly accelerated breathing, rapid 

 hard pulse, general fever and stiffness in one or both limbs.' 

 Examination high up in the groin, by the side of the sheath or 

 udder, detects enlargement and great tenderness of the inguinal 

 glands, the patient usually raising and drawing out his limb till 

 he seems ready to fall over on the other side. Soon the shiver- 

 ing gives place to the hot stage, the surface burns and sweats, 

 and the limb swells, the swelling extending cord-like down the 

 course of the vessels on its inner side, and its lower part 

 becoming the seat of an excessive exudation, which may fill it 

 up to the body, and of two, three, or four times its natural size. 

 If allowed to go on, abscess, sloughing, and unhealthy sores 

 may result, the patient may perish, or the fever may subside 

 leaving the limb permanently thickened to almost any extent, 

 and correspondingly liable to future attacks. 



Treatment. — Mild cases may be entirely restored by giving 

 the animal a fair amount of exercise. In those that are some- 

 what more severe, a smart purgative (aloes 6 to 8 drs.) must be 

 given, warm fomentations applied continuously to the limb, 

 and walking exercise enforced as soon as the patient can be 

 made to move. The purgation should be followed up by active 

 diuretics (nitre, iodide of potassium), and when the inflam- 

 mation has somewhat subsided tincture of iodine may be 

 applied over the swollen glands. In the worst cases in vigorous 

 plethoric subjects a prompt effect should be secured by a free 

 bleeding from the jugular, until the pulse is softened, and the 

 same treatment followed out as in other cases. Diet should be 

 light and laxative (bran-mashes, roots, scalded hay, etc.), and 

 the water given with the chill off. 



For the chronic thickening ot the leg, regular feeding and 

 exercise, a bandage smoothly applied from the foot up when in 



