ON PHI.KBITIS. 
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durated—a kind of hard cord, painful to the touch, is formed, and 
extends from the orifice made in bleeding towards the parotids, 
which also are often swelled—the skin becomes inflamed and 
roughened—the animal has difficulty in turning his head, or lifting 
it in order to seize its food—the mastication is difficult and painful, 
and abscesses begin to form, whence proceed fistulous passages, 
through which escapes pus of a bad character and exhaling a putrid 
odour. The reaction on the general system is dreadful—the animal 
loses his spirits entirely—he exhibits a state of dreadful suffering, 
and if gangrene attacks the diseased parts, death is not tardy in 
putting an end to this series of symptoms. 
Treatment .—The first thing to be done when the slightest symp¬ 
tom of phlebitis is observed is to place the horse in a situation in 
vvdiich he can neither get at the wound himself nor rub it against 
any neighbouring body. Refrigerants are then employed with ad¬ 
vantage on the inflamed part, such as cold water, or liquid acetate 
of lead diluted with water. When the inflammation is very great, 
emollient fomentations are used, or cataplasms of the same nature, 
embracing the neck, and confined in their place by means of a soft 
and stuffed bandage. The unguentumpojmleum will likewise be had 
recourse to*. All the food should be easy of mastication, as gruel 
or the farina of various seeds suspended in water, and placed so that 
the animal has occasion neither to lift his head too high or,to depress 
it too much in order to reach it. Every thing is to be avoided 
which can cause any considerable movement of the head and neck, 
for that would much retard the cure, and also produce many annoy¬ 
ing consequences, and, perhaps, a fatal one. 
If the disease takes on a fistulous character, a sound with a ca- 
nula must be introduced through the external opening to the very 
bottom of the fistula. A bistoury must then be passed along the 
channel of the sound to the same depth, and then, by a movement 
of the hand from below upwards, and from within outwards, the 
indurated tissues are cut through, care being taken to preserve a 
portion of the indurated substance, in order to oppose an obstacle 
to hemorrhage, which, possibly, could not otherwise be arrested, 
except by a ligature of the vessel. 
This wound should be dressed with pledgets covered with 
simple digestive ointment, or with basilicon, and which should be 
placed so as to keep the lips of the wound somewhat apart, the 
whole being covered by the emollient substances already described. 
When suppuration is established, the case is treated like any 
* This is a singular ointment, but a favourite one with the French. It is 
composed of the powder of the buds of the black po])lar, and the leaves of the 
poppy, and belladonna, and henbane, and black nightshade, Jiiixcd togc^thcr 
with lard. 
