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in eight weeks (from the great quantity of pus discharged, I had con¬ 
siderable difficulty in preventing sores from forming down the left 
leg); at which time a small piece of carious bone (the size of a nut) 
also came from the wound, after which the parts rapidly closed, and 
in ten w'eeks from the time of the operation they were completely 
cicatrized. His feeding consisted of ten pounds of bran, given in 
two mashes, and twelve pounds of hay, daily. His withers now 
present a curious appearance, there being a hollow at the setting 
on of the neck as large as to contain two hands. 
The subject of the above case is nearly thorough bred, and has a 
most excellent constitution. He is now as useful in the saddle as 
ever, trotting with ease twelve miles an hour, and I have been ad¬ 
vised to ask thirty guineas for him. 
ON PHLEBITIS. 
By Professor L. V. Delwart, of Brussels. 
[Professor Delwart has published a work on “The special or de¬ 
scriptive Pathology of the principal Domesticated Animals.’' 
We hope to be enabled shortly to review it; but, in the mean 
time, we enable our readers to form some opinion of it, by ex¬ 
tracting his account of the disease which occupies so prominent 
a part in the account of the proceedings of the Veterinary Asso¬ 
ciation, as reported in the present Journal.] 
Phlebitis is inflammation of the veins, characterized generally 
by pain, heat, and induration of the vessel, and a violent pruritus, 
which induces the animal to bite the part, or to rub it against any 
surrounding body within its reach. The parietes of the veins be¬ 
come thickened- they assume a red tinge, and they are more 
easily torn. Sometimes they ulcerate, and a fistulous aperture 
pierces the integument. The surrounding tissues become infil¬ 
trated, hardened, and transformed into a kind of lardaceous matter. 
The causes of phlebitis are wounds, contusions, compression, 
ligatures, and, principally, venesection. 
The vein most generally affected by phlebitis is the jugular, 
because it is on,it that phlebotomy is almost always practised. It 
is characterized usually by a painful itching, which induces the 
animal to rub the wound against every thing within its reach— 
sometimes by the presence of thrombus—the wound inflicted in 
bleeding becomes inflamed—its edges are disunited—they separate 
from each other—they become hard—a sanious purulent fluid, and, 
sometimes, actual pus, escapes—(he surrounding parts become in- 
