10 INTRODIJCTION. 



(1.) Resolution; that is, it gives way, or is relieved be- 

 fore any alteration has taken place in the part so in- 

 flamed. 



(2.) Suppuration, or the formation of pus. 



(3.) Mortification, or death of the part affected, and 

 the subsequent death of the animal. Inflammation is 

 characterized by four conditions, or phenomena, as they 

 are called — pain, heat, redness, and swelling. Inflam- 

 mation assumes different degrees of intensity, modified by 

 the cause, and the part or organ affected. When it is 

 situated in the windpipe, (bronchitis, which see,) lungs, 

 or bowels, great uneasiness and disturbance are manifest. 

 In a few hours this condition gives way to depression. 



Depression. — Many diseases of an inflammatory type, 

 when their course is run, leave the system in a state of 

 depression, or a low condition of vitality. How neces- 

 sary, then, that this should be properly understood when 

 treating inflammatory diseases, as one pint of blood taken 

 from a large horse would, under these circumstances, cost 

 him his life! Rather anticipate the weakness by sup- 

 porting and husbanding the strength, so as to overcome 

 disease. 



There are two great divisions of diseased action, which 

 it will be well for farmers, and others interested in the 

 welfare of their animals to know, and these are: — First. 

 The exalted, or as it is called sthenic, or commonly known 

 by the term inflammation, and require for treatment, not 

 bleeding, but medicine having the power of overcoming 

 the exalted condition, by controlling the fast beating of 

 the heart and pulse. This is easily done by the power of 

 such agents as aconite or veratrum, (which see,) and with- 

 out in any way impairing the strength and constitution 

 of the animal. The second, or depressed condition of 



