PYO-SEPTIIAMIE IN FOALS CAUSED BY PHLEBITIS UMBILICALIS. 
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of the leading veterinarians in Europe for the last one hundred 
years. Brugnone, of Turin, mentioned it as early as 1781. 
Dietrichs describes the malady in the Gestutskundq in 1824 
under the name of Lahure multiple anthritis, a disease of foals 
affecting the bones and joints, and about the same time Wirth 
designated the disease as acute epilepsy, and Hofacker con¬ 
founded it with rachitis; Renard, a French veterinarian, reported 
the disease in 1828 existing as an enzootic at the large breeding 
establishments of France. In 1831 Strauss described the dis¬ 
ease as a constitutional disturbance of the lymphatic system, 
especially the mesenteric glands. Trager, in 1839, described it 
as due to a malcondition of the blood. Then followed Heus- 
inger, Funlce, Spinola and Vieth, who were converts to the 
scrofulous hypothesis. Haubner in 1840, being governed by its 
varied manifestations, described it as three different diseases 
affecting the suckling young, viz., lahure, rheumatism and 
arthritis. The views of Hering, in 1749, were that the malady 
was of constitutional origin, the nature of which hovered some¬ 
where between rheumatism, tetanus and arthritis. This was 
followed by the theory of Furstenberg as a fatty degeneration of 
the muscles, the cause of which he cast upon the sheet-anchor 
catching cold. Then came Roloff with rachitis as the cause of 
the trouble. Thus the hypothetical confusion of this disease 
existed until 1873, when Bollinger, by holding repeated au¬ 
topsies, discovered the true cause of this malady. 
As you will infer from the term omphalo phlebitis, we have 
primarly an inflammation of the umbilicus and umbilical blood¬ 
vessels, which forms a distributing point and fountain-head for a 
metastatic pyaemia; the condition of the navel at or immediately 
after birth offers every opportunity for the absorption of a septic 
poison into the umbilical vein, there to regenerate itself a thous¬ 
and-fold in the thrombus remaining after the cessation of the 
foetal circulation; from here the virus, in the form of small em¬ 
boli, passes through the venal portal into the circulation, by 
which they are distributed to all parts of the body, lodging in 
the minute capillaries of any organ or tissue, manifesting its 
