152 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 
minuteness, just as the boughs of a tree terminate in the 
twigs. These minute vessels are denominated capillaries, 
These capillaries ramify, and are placed in the most in- 
timate relation with every tissue throughout the body 
within whose substance reproduction and decay are in 
perpetual operation, as well as with those organs whose 
duty it is to furnish or separate the secretions and ex- 
cretions already referred to. Each tissue selects from 
the common pabulum—the blood—thus sent to it, the 
peculiar principle it requires to support its own life and 
integrity. 
The usual terminations of inflammation are resolution, 
mortification, suppuration, ulceration, hemorrhage, ef- 
fusion, hepatization, and ossification. By resolution is 
meant the state of the tissues after their recovery from 
the effects of inflammation. 
Mortification is loss of vitality or death of the tissues 
involved. 
Suppuration—A collection of purulent matter, which 
receives the name of abscess. 
Ulceration—A purulent solution of continuity of the 
soft parts arising from loss of substance. 
Hemorrhage occurs as a direct or indirect consequence 
of inflammation, from ulceration penetrating through 
the coats of an artery. 
. fiffusion—An exudation of serum, watery accumula- 
tions, as in dropsy. 
Hepatization—Conversion of a texture into a sub- 
stance like liver. 
Ossification—Formation of bone—change of soft 
structures into bony ones. 
The account we give is necessarily brief; but we trnst 
it is sufficient to furnish the reader with a clear concep- 
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