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mation is possible. If it occurs, the treatment of suppurative lymphangitis 
must be carried out. 
Subcutaneous ruptures of lymphatics give rise to the affection de- 
scribed under the name of ¢raumatic effusion of serosity. 
Bruises of Zymphatic glands are not generally followed with special com-- 
plications. Their treatment is that of bruises in general. 
Wounds of glands arerare. They may, however, be accidentally injured’ 
by wounding bodies and instruments of surgeons. The lymphorragia, con- 
cealed by the hemorrhage, stops with it. In the majority of cases, these- 
wounds demand only an antiseptic dressing and immobility. When the- 
flow of lymph continues, canalicular tract is established which must be- 
treated as the fistulas of lymphatic vessels. Extirpation of the glands is. 
“ sometimes necessary. 
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LYMPHANGITIS. 
Always secondary and produced by the entrance in the lymphatic vessels: 
of phlogogenous infectious elements, ymphangitis or angioleucitis present. 
numerous Clinical varieties in all animal species. Generally those that are 
observed are of traumatic nature and have for starting point a tegumentary 
solution of continuity,—wound, prick, ulcer, abrasion. In cases where no 
apparent solution of continuity exists in the region, whose lymph is col- 
lected by the inflamed lymphatics, angioleucitis is the consequence of either: 
an interstitial auto-inoculation (glanders, distemper, tuberculosis) or of a. 
micro-trauma, rapidly wiped out, which still has lasted sufficiently to per- 
mit the passage of infectious elements. Numerous facts have shown that 
lymphangitis may appear after bruises without noticeable wound, re-- 
peated frictions, or cutaneous impregnation by septic or putrid fluids. 
There are slow lymphangitis, “with incubation,” which are manifested. 
only a long time after cicatrization of the wound through which the agents. 
of infection have entered ; often then a shock or repeated frictions are the: 
cause of this “inflammatory return.” 
Acute or chronic, superficial or deep, lymphangitis are ¢runcular,. 
reticular or radicular, as they affect the lymphatic trunks, the cutaneous. 
network or the roots of the white vessels in the various tissues. Favored 
by some constitutional or diathetic conditions, they are produced by very: 
various pathogenous agents: there are as many kinds of lymphangitis as. 
there are micro-organisms susceptible to irritate the white vessels. 
In inflamed canals, one often finds the staphylococcus albus or 
aureus, sometimes the streptococcus pyogenes, the bacillus coli or 
some leptotrix. Histology and bacteriolgy have permitted the distinction. 
