THE CAKADIAK HORSE AND HIS 



DISEASES. 



CHAPTEE I. 



INFI/AMMATION. 



Inflammation, in one form or other, coinstitnteg^ the greater 

 part of medical practice : it is therefore necessary, in the out- 

 set, that we obtain as correct a notion ofthe inflamrnatcyfy 

 process as possible. 



Within the last few years, the microscope has done much 

 to elucidate the real nature of this process, and even now 

 the subject is far from exhausted. Inflammation " may be 

 defined to be an alteration in the healthy structure and func- 

 tion of a part, accompanied by a perverted condition of the 

 blood and capillary blood-vessels ; ordinarily attended with 

 redness, pain, heat, and swelling; and inducing more or less 

 febrile disturbance of the general system. "-^Millee. 



Let us suppose that we have a living tissue under the 

 focus of the microscope. We observe the circulation in 

 the arteries, where it is so rapid as to prevent our seeing the 



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