606 LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
In the present day many practitioners are much averse to bleed- 
ing in almost any case, but I must say I am not one of them, as I 
sincerely believe that in some cases of inflammation of the eyes, 
brain, bowels, lungs, farcy in the hind legs (lymphangitis), spasm 
of the bowels, &c., bleeding is of the most essential use, and cannot 
be neglected with safety to our patients. But this point, I submit, 
Mr. President, we need not enter upon to-night, 
f Many years ago I was sadly harassed with cases of inflamma- 
tion of the vein, consequent on bleeding, especially so in the hot 
summer of 1826 ; but latterly, I am glad to say, cases of this kind 
have been very rare with me. 
Although I may not offer anything particularly novel to your 
notice, yet I believe there are among us those who are fully able to 
throw considerable light on the subject from the different cases they 
have witnessed, and I can assure you, from my own experience, there 
is no disease that requires more tact, talent and discrimination, in 
order to perform a cure. 
Phlebitis, or inflammation of the veins, may be observed occa- 
sionally, I have no doubt, in every animal ; but as far as my expe- 
rience goes, I have only seen it in the human subject, the horse and 
the cow. 
In the cow I have seen many cases, but most of them have 
passed off without giving much trouble, as they were mere cases of 
thrombus. In one case it was fatal. I have also had a fatal case 
in the horse. (See Veterinarian for 1839, pages 717 — 719.) 
Mr. Youatt, in his work on cattle, says that “ he has seen as bad 
necks in cattle after bleeding as in the horse, but they are not so 
common.” 
In the horse the diseased vein has been chiefly the jugular. I 
have never had more than three or four cases in the superficial 
brachial, and none in the superficial tibial — vena saphena major — 
or other veins. 
The jugular veins are the vessels chiefly employed in returning 
the blood from the head, brain, face, neck, &c., and are made up of 
large branches that take their rise from various places, and from 
what are usually designated the submaxillary , auricular , internal 
maxillary, par otideal and temporal veins, and also from a branch 
that comes from the lateral sinus of the dura mater, and proceeds 
through the foramen laeerum basis cranii. Other smaller branches 
from the neck, &c., empty themselves as they proceed down the 
neck. 
Mr. Youatt, in his work on cattle, has described an internal 
jugular vein, and says it “ is deeply seated, and lies by the side of 
the carotid artery, and under the subscapulo-hvoideus muscle, and 
that a knowledge of this additional jugular vein in cattle will 
obviate in a great measure the danger accruing from obstruction in 
the external jugulars.” This vein I denied the existence of, which 
brought forth a reply in the “ Abstract of the Proceedings of the 
Association” for 1839-40, page 213, wherein he states, “ That 
which I call the internal jugular vein in the ox might as properly 
be termed the occipital vein. It descends from the head in com- 
