144 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



Phlebitis. — A name given to inflammation of the 

 vein after bleeding characterized by swelling and cording 

 of the vein. (See Jugular Vein.) 



Phlegmasia Dolens. — A name given to one leg 

 when swelled to a great extent from plugging of the 

 blood vessels of the leg with plastic matter poured into 

 them from the blood. (See Grease.) 



Phrenitis. — One of the many diseases of the brain 

 characterized by the horse becoming unmanageable — a 

 variety of staggers, or it may be of inflammation of the 

 brain itself, and is incurable. 



Physiology- — A branch of medical science treating 

 of the life and functions of organized bodies. 



Physicking. — In England and in some parts of the 

 European continent, a person who does not know how to 

 physick a horse, whether sick or well, is not considered 

 fit to take care of horses. In the United States, the 

 man who knows all about, and recommends physicking 

 under almost any circumstance, should not be permitted 

 to even to take a horse by the head, much less to take 

 care of horses not his own. In an extensive practice 

 of many years, I do not recollect a half dozen times, 

 when I either gave or recommended a horse to be phy- 

 sicked; and no man can show equal success in the treat- 

 ment of disease of horses and cattle, let his mode of 

 practice be what it may. Remember, when the bowels 

 are opened, and emptied of their contents, an important 

 pillar has been taken from under the animal structure. 

 Show me an European book on the diseases of animals, 

 which does not recommend and minutely describe how to 

 physick a horse, and I will show you a city without walls, 



