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(1.) SesoluUon; that is, it gives way, or is relieved be- 

 fore any alteration has taken place in the part so inflamed. 



(2.) Swppwraiion, or the formation of pus. 



(3.) Mortification, or death of the part affected, and the 

 subsequent death of the animal. Inflammation is charac- 

 terized by four conditions, or phenomena, as they are 

 Galled — ^pain, heat, redness, and swelling. Inflammation 

 assumes different degrees of intensity, modified by the 

 cause, and the part or organ affected. When it is situated 

 in the windpipe, (bronchitis, which see,) lungs, or bowels, 

 great uneasiness and disturbance are manifest. In a few 

 hours this condition gives way to depression. 



Depression. — Many diseases of an inflammatory type, 

 wnen their course is run, leave the system in a state of de- 

 pression, or a low condition of vitality. How necessary, 

 then, that this should be properly understood when treat- 

 ing inflammatory diseases, as one pint of blood taken from 

 a large horse would, under these circumstances, cost him 

 his life ! Rather anticipate the weakness by supporting 

 and husbanding the strength as much as possible, so as to 

 overcome disease. 



There are two great divisions of diseased action, which 

 it will be well for farmers, and others interested in the 

 welfare of their animals, to Imow, and these are: First. 

 The exalted, or as it is called sthenic, or commonly known 

 by the term inflammation, and requires for treatment, not 

 bleeding, but medicine having the power of overcoming 

 the exalted condition, by controlling the fast beating of 

 the heart and pulse. This is easily done by the power of 

 such agents as aconite or veratrum, (which see,) and with- 

 out in any way impairing the strength and constitution of 

 the animal. The second, or depressed condition of dis- 

 ease, and known as the asthenic, requiring a treatment 



