LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Ill 
absorbent vessels, a more rapid absorption of the debris causing the 
enlargement of the limb. 
It is with reluctance that I now resume my seat, knowing full 
well that my efforts have not done justice to the subject ; but per- 
haps I may be allowed to consider this paper as the groundwork 
from which I hope will spring the opinions and experience of those 
present, for I think an essayist is allowed the right to expect a dis- 
cussion of his paper, whereby he may at least add to his already 
partially supplied garner some few gleanings, which, if they did not 
correspond with his own ideas, would be subject matter for after- 
thought and reflection, and, further, be evidence of the goodwill of 
the members of these associations, in their relentless endeavours to 
assist a labouring professional brother. 
Mr. Greaves opened the discussion by advocating puncturing of 
the limb in the acute stage to a depth of half an inch or an inch, 
as a valuable remedial measure. He considered it to relieve pain 
and, by the flow of serous fluid, to diminish the amount of work the 
absorbents wmuld be called upon to perform subsequently. 
Mr. Whalley , after relating a very interesting case of phlebitis, 
averred his belief that inflammatory oedema was a disease bearing a 
close analogy to phlebitis. 
Mr. Reynolds had noticed many cases resulting from the too free 
administration, as a dietary, of new oats. 
Mr. Haycock defined two forms of inflammatory oedema, one 
where the disease chiefly confined itself to the areolar tissue, and 
one wherein the lymphatics of the limb were principally attacked. 
Mr. T. Taylor believed the old-fashioned principles of treatment 
a little modernised were sufficient to combat all ordinary cases. 
Mr. P. Taylor enumerated the symptoms of a peculiar case 
lately under treatment ; it was an obstinate one of bastard strangles 
in a five-year-old harness horse. Some two or three abscesses formed 
in the submaxillary glands, and also one in the cervical region about 
two thirds down the neck, in close proximity with the brachia and 
left jugular vein. Convalescence ensued after a long course of 
treatment, and then total obliteration of the jugular vein of the left 
side was discovered to have taken place. No local symptoms of 
venitis were observable during the attack. 
With reference to the disease under discussion, he considered the 
appellation “inflammatory oedema” to be a misnomer , it being 
strictly a disease of the lymphatics — in other words, lymphangitis. 
He defended this opinion by stating that he believed the system to 
be loaded with fibrinous blood, and that this fibrinous material when 
effused caused inflammation of the lymphatic veesels. 
In the course of his remarks Mr. Whittle made reference to im- 
pairment of the function of the liver as being associated with the 
causes in action tending to produce attacks of “ weed.” 
Messrs. Dobie, Lomas, and Harwood concurred as to the advisa- 
bility of administering a dose of calomel and aloes at the commence- 
ment of an attack. 
