120 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



occurrence of dropsy unless you know that there is a free 

 circulation by other collateral trunks. They may be com- 

 pressed for a time until the wound is closed with lymph, 

 a simple pad and compress being used, or the silver wire 

 and cork as advised for arteries. 



PHLEBITIS. INFLAMMATION OF VEINS. 



This usually results from opening a vein with a rusty 

 fleam or lancet, making the incision at the dilated part, 

 just above a valve, pulling out the skin in inserting the pin 

 so as to cause a flow of blood into the tissues beneath, leav- 

 ing hairs or other irritants in the wound, or pinning the 

 lips awry. 



Symptoms. Swelling of the wound, gaping and redness 

 of the Ups, and the formation of a hard painful cord along 

 the line of the vein in an upward direction where the blood 

 is necessarily stagnant and in contact with the clot al- 

 ready formed. The exudation may be fibrinous with a 

 tendency to contraction and obliteration of the vein, or 

 suppuration may occur, in which case the matter must es- 

 cape externally. Clots may be detached and washed on 

 to plug the arteries in the lungs, and rouse pneumonia, 

 or perfect recovery may take place with loss of the vein, 

 and a tendency to swelhng of the part from which it comes, 

 when that is in a dependent position. 



Treatment. If from an inflamed wound after bleeding, 

 take out the pin, remove hair, pus, clotted blood or other 

 irritant, and foment with warm water. Then rub in, at au 

 inch distant from the wound and along the course of the 

 hardened vein, an active blister (Spanish flies 2 drs., lard 

 1 oz.,) and tie the animal to the two sides of the stall, so 

 that he cannot rub the part. If a vein is lost in the neck, 

 never again turn out to grass. 



DIFFUSE PHLEBITIS 



Resulting from an irritated or poisoned external wound, 

 or in the womb after pai-turition, is usually fatal, the clots 



