luflammation. Phlogosis. Phlegmasia. 53, 



centres by the toxic materials absorbed inducing troublesome 

 paralysis, while another like croup of children establishes a vio- 

 lent but essentially superficial disease and when that recovers it 

 leaves no ulterior ill effects elsewhere. 



A Chyliform exudate has been noted in peritonitis in the dog 

 the milky whiteness being due to fatty granules. 



RESULTS AND PRODUCTS OF INFLAMMATION. 



As nearly all inflammations have significant exudations it is 

 well to follow these in their subsequent progress through reab- 

 sorption and removal, development into new tissues, necrosis, 

 suppuration or ulceration. 



Resolution. If an inflammation, slight in character and 

 with only a moderate exudation, subsides and is followed by a 

 rapid liquefaction of the cells and fibrinous coagula and a re- 

 absorption of the exudate, so as to leave the part in its primary 

 healthy condition structurally and functionally, it is said to have 

 terminated by 'Resolution." If this occurs with extraordinary 

 rapidity it is said to have ended by ' ' delitescence. ' ' This is not 

 always an unalloyed good, as often in delitescence, coagula and in- 

 fecting material may be carried on by the circulation, to block the 

 next set of capillaries in its course and set up new centres of in- 

 flammation. This is one form of ' ' metastasis ' ' though a more 

 definite metastasis is in rheumatism, where the disease attacks 

 one joint to-day and a distant one to-morrow. 



Inflammatory New Formations. Of the growths in lymph 

 there are two principal kinds : First, tke plastic, fibrinous, gran- 

 ular or molecular ; and second, the aplastic or corpuscular. The 

 first form tends to develop into new structure, the second to dis- 

 integrate and decay. The tendency to one or other form de- 

 pends largely on the strength or weakness of the system's health, 

 on the deficiency or excess of corpuscles in the exuded fluid, and 

 on the distance of the latter from living tissues and blood supply. 

 Much also depends on the predisposition of the genus, the ten- 

 dency to suppuration in lymph being in a descending series from 

 horse, ass, and mule, through ox and sheep, to dog, pig, and 

 finally, the bird, in which latter suppuration is quite exceptional. 



Suppuration. In inflammations of a high type, in those oc- 



