122 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



circumstances in over-worked and rather reduced horses. 

 In either case it is due to an accumulation ia the blood of 

 deleterious products that should have been worked off by 

 exercise. 



Symptoms. There is shivering to a variable extent, but 

 very severe in the worst cases, greatly accelerated breath- 

 ing, rapid hard pulse, general fever and stiffness in one or 

 both limbs. Examination high up in the groin, by the 

 side of the sheath or udder, detects enlargement and 

 great tenderness of the inguinal glands, the patient usu- 

 ally raising and drawing out his limb till he seems ready 

 to fall over on the other side. Soon the shivering gives 

 place to the hot stage, the surface burns and sweats, and 

 the limb swells, the swelling extending cord-lUje down the 

 course of the vessels on its inner side, and its lower part 

 becoming the seat of an excessive exudation, which may 

 fill it up to the body, and of two, three, or four times its 

 natural size. If allowed to go on, abscess, sloughing and 

 unhealthy sores may result, the patient may perish, or the 

 fever may subside leaving the limb permanently thickened 

 to almost any extent, and correspondingly liable to future 

 attacks. 



Treatment. Mild cases may be entirely restored by 

 giving the animal a fair amount of exercise. In those 

 that are somewhat more severe, a smart purgative (aloes 

 6 to 8 drs.) must be given, warm fomentations applied 

 continuously to the hmb, and walking exercise enforced as 

 soon as the patient can be made to move. The piirgation 

 should be followed up by active diuretics (nitre, iodide of 

 potassium,) and when the inflammation has somewhat 

 subsided tincture of iodine may be applied over the swol- 

 len glands. In the worst cases in vigorous plethoric 

 subjects a prompt effect should be secured by a free bleed- 

 ing from the jugular, until the pulse is softened, and the 

 same treatment followed out as in other cases. Diet 

 should be light and laxative (bran-mashes, roots, scalded 

 hay, etc.,) and the water given with the chill off. 



For the chronic thickening of the leg, regular feeding 



