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swelling, hard, of a grayish red color.’’ These are the lesions of the: 
post-hemoglobinuric femoral neuritis. 
Trasbot has thus described the alterations of the nerve when the affection 
is recent: “Its interfascicular connective tissue, extensively injected with 
blood, has a dark red color. Little by little this same tissue, partaking of° 
the inflammation developed as consequence of the surrounding traumatism,. 
vascularizes and swells; the nerve, upon a length of five or ten centime- 
ters, presents then a fusiform swelling, whose transverse diameter may, in 
its middle part, be two or three times the primitive size, which is preserved. 
before and beyond the swelling. By simple dissection, it is observed that 
the nervous cords are isolated from each other, individually enveloped 
and compressed by the embryoplastic tissue now in process of formation.’” 
The treatment of this affection shall be indicated in the chapter on 
Paralysis of the Femoral Nerve. . 
The therapeutics of neuritis varies with its forms. Prevent the cause is’ 
one of the first indications. For instance, by taking the precautions in- 
suring immediate cicatrization, one will have great chances to prevent 
neuritis of operation ; and if neurotomy is performed, by cutting the nerve: 
as high as possible, near the superior angle of the incision. With toxic: 
or infectious neuritis, the introduction in the organisms of nocive agents. 
should be guarded against, their elimination favored, or antitoxic agents: 
resorted to to overcome their influence. When already neuritis is of some 
duration, the restoration of the nerve by hydrotherapy, electrotherapy: 
(faradic or galvanic), massage and exercise will be indicated. Rheuma- 
tismal neuritis should be treated by salicylate of soda. Overwork and cold. 
should be avoided. 
III. 
NEUROMAS—-TUMORS. 
Most of the authors that have treated of neuromas have placed under 
that denomination all the tumors developed on the course of nerves. 
But only the rare neoplasms formed by nervous tissue of new formation de-.- 
serve this denomination ; the others are only fibromas, myxomas or lipomas’ 
of nerves. The painful products found at the extremity of nerves in some: 
stumps of amputations are not neuromas; neither are the pseudo-tumors 
which fill up the wounds of neurotomy, no more than the callus or the 
cicatrixes of the tendons represent true neoplasms: they are the result of 
the inflammation of the nerve and belong to neuritis. The same exists for- 
the post-hemoglobinuric “ neuromas.”’ 
Let us remark that in the generality of the cases published in veterinary” 
medicine, histological examination has not been made. From the therap— 
eutical point of view, the true nature of these tumors is indeed of secondary 
