LYMPHANGITIS. 37 3 
tions of ammoniacal liniments were sufficient to obtain a rapid resolution. 
‘The same author had also obtained good results with embrocations of 
mercurial ointment, repeated eight or ten times. D’Arboval and Rey 
advocated the use of blisters; this, says Rey, “succeeds very well on the 
internal face of the cannon; one application is generally enough.” 
Several veterinarians resort to the charge of Lebas over the whole of the 
inflamed region; others use populeum ointment, ‘or again others prefer 
“poultices. 
All these means have only a mediocre efficacy. Lymphangitis being 
the esultr of microbian injection, antisepsy must be the base of the treat- 
ment. One must act at the same time on the inoculated lesion, and the 
lymphatic inflammation, wounds, cracks, pricks, should be minutely dis- 
infected with a sublimate solution (1 p. 1000), cresyl or phenic aid 
‘(3 p. 100), and covered with a wadding dressing. Slight angioleucitis should 
‘be treated often by cold baths or douches, massage and exercise when the 
‘pain has subsided. General symptoms pass off first, but often the swell- 
ing remains for two or three weeks. 
When lymphangitis is severe, when it is a complication of a wound of 
‘operation or of one accidental on the extremities, warm antiseptic baths are 
indicated. They will be administered two or three times a day and last half 
-an hour each. It is advantageous to cover the inflamed surface with tepid 
phenic or sublimated compresses. The absorbed fluid progresses in 
lymphatics, where they bring their direct disinfecting action. Damp 
moisture favors the resorption of exudates; perhaps in some cases they 
act in reducing the virulence of infectious elements. In other regions, 
-one may advantageously use antiseptic washing or spraying and protect 
the wound with a dressing. ‘To reach with more certainty the pathogen- 
-ous elements, some authors have advised injection of phenic water at 
2 p. 100, here and there along the course of the inflamed lymphatics. 
Repeated coatings of the leg with a solution of perchloride of iron at 
3 p. 100, or diluted tincture of iodine, are worth trying with antiseptic 
baths. With deep lymphangitis, antiseptic balneation is also a goad 
mode of treatment. By it, the inflammation and the pain rapidly disap- 
‘pear, and complications are avoided. 
Instead of ending by resolution, lymphangitis may pass to suppuration : 
“pus forms in the lymphatic vessels, in the perilymphatic cellular tissue and 
sometimes in the thickness of the dermis. In some parts of the lymphatic 
cord, rounded fluctuating tumors are formed. And from them, either 
after ulceration or if open by puncture, escapes a thick, whitish pus." 
1In the case related by W. C. Siegmund, the original cause of the lymphangitis 
remained unknown. Several superficial abscesses had formed on the coronet, inside 
.of the hock, alongside the thigh, some 40 in number. Tested with mallein, negative 
