DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 
INFLAMMATION, 
From Inflammo, to burn, is one of the most common 
forms of disease presented to the Veterinary Surgeon, 
and regarding which many erroneous opinions have pre- 
vailed, in consequence of which much injury and often 
serious consequences have resulted. Sound medical 
practice must be based upon sound medical principles.. 
A correct understanding of the term inflammation will 
assist us very materially in understanding the pathology 
of diseases in their most complicated forms. A few 
years since, every form of disease occurring in our do- 
mestic animals was regarded and treated as some form 
of inflammation; purging and bleeding were the order 
of the day. How different the practice of the present. 
time! 
The manner in which inflammation has been written 
upon has made it a subject perfectly bewildering to the 
general reader, and from its being associated with every 
thing in actual practice, no idea of a very definite kind 
with regard to it will for a long time occur to his mind. 
With a view to overcome this difficulty, we will give the 
most simple definition of the term inflammation. It is, 
“An unnatural or perverted action of and in the capillary 
blood-vessels of a part; attended with redness, throb- 
