48 TEllMINATIONS OF INFLAMMATIOR. 



a liberal allowance of corn, hay, or grass, a gallon of new milk 

 during the day ; he will soon become fond of it. He should 

 be made to drink it instead of water, and if kept without the 

 latter for a few hours, will drink the milk with avidity. If the 

 appetite is entirely lost, six eggs ought to be beaten up and 

 mixed with each gallon of milk. 



The strength must also be kept up with tonics, iron, quinine," 

 wine, or beer, and acids ; and should these fail, nux vomica and 

 arsenic in small doses. 



I have seen many cases of this kind of mal-condition, which 

 I have ventured to compare to the hectic fever of the human 

 l>eing, rapidly recover, with very little treatment, after being 

 removed from a crowded stable to an airy, loose box. 



Pyemia differs from the latter condition by the development 

 of abscesses, or of purulent infiltrations in various internal 

 organs, and from irregular strangles by the abscesses being 

 secondary to, and not concomitant with, those in the sub- 

 maxillary space. In reality there is but little difference, 

 except that in the one case the internal collections of pus 

 are due to a diathesis, and in the other to the absorption of 

 some deleterious material generated in the pus of the primary 

 abscess. 



Mr. Haycock was, I think, the first to point out the occur- 

 rence of pyiemia succeeding strangles (see his Contrihviion, to 

 Veterinary Patlwlogy, 1849-50), under the term " Phlebitis." 

 Since then the subject has received considerable attention, but 

 even to this day cases are described as pyaemia which are in 

 reality extensive abscesses, infiltrations, excessive suppurations, 

 or farcy. 



Pyaemia may be defined to be a typhoid condition, accom- 

 panied by multiple abscesses or purulent infiltrations into one 

 or more organs, resulting generally from strangles, parturition, 

 and from injury or surgical operation. 



Four theories have been promulgated with the view of ex- 

 plaining the pathognomy of pyaemia: — 



\st. " That this condition is owing to an admixture of the 

 blood with pus (pyohemia of Piorry), and that the pus corpuscles 

 being larger than the coloured ones of blood, are arrested in 

 tlie minute capillaries, and give rise to secondary abscesses. 

 2d. Tliat it is owing to the presence of some irritant body. 



