34 BOVINE PATHOLOGY. 



Resolution is a termination of inflammation most to be 

 desired ; it consists in the gradual resumption of healthy 

 conditions of the diseased part. In it the products of 

 cell proliferation are absorbed, lymphj deposits and serous 

 effusions undergo the same fate, and the blocking up of 

 the vessels which has resulted in stasis gives way, so that 

 healthy circulation is resumed. When this process occurs 

 very suddenly, as when only stasis and effusion of serum 

 have to be overcome, a few hours suffices for resolution, 

 which is then termed Delitescence. Occasionally this is 

 related to appearance of inflammation in some other organ, 

 when it is termed Metastasis, a phenomenon which occurs 

 very frequently in rheumatic affections. How this is 

 brought about we are not in a position to say. Cases of 

 false metastasis have been found to be due to direct con- 

 tinuity of structure, and true alteration of the seat of an 

 inflammation may be due to the ill-ascertained conditions 

 of nerve continuity. There are various terms used to 

 indicate the forms assumed by inflammation as dependent 

 on consitutional or local conditions : 



Specific, when it depends upon the presence of special 

 materies morhi, 



Teaumatic, when it is due to local injury from without 

 through mechanical, chemical, thermal, and other agen- 

 cies. 



Idiopathic, when not attributable to any such cause. 



Sthenic, when occurring in a constitution with high 

 vital energy, and tending to the throwing out of plastic 

 lymph, which rapidly undergoes organisation, or to sup- 

 puration. The pulse being full and strong, and the 

 internal temperature high, and the nervous system in a 

 state of high activity, these cases run their course in a 

 short time. 



Asthenic, when tending to assume a low character with 

 imperfect lymph deposits which do not circumscribe the 

 accumulations of badly matured pus, which^ therefore, 

 tends to spread widely by infiltration into neighbouring 

 parts. This leads to extensive destruction of tissue, and 

 a depressed state of the constitution, the pulse being 



