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seat in due course of time by inflammation and suppuration, 
and, according to the location of the embolism, you may have 
a varied number of complications, such as pneumonia, hepatitis, 
nephritis, cerebro-spinal meningitis, arthritis, choroiditis, iritis, 
otc. 
The symptoms vary according to localization and extent of 
complications; primarily you have hurried breathing, high fever, 
varying from ioo° to io6° F., utter want of appetite, distressed 
expression of countenance, patient usually preferring the re¬ 
cumbent position, manifesting great weakness if forced to rise ; 
there may appear suddenly an intensely painful swelling of one 
or more joints, attributed generally to an injury incurred by the 
mare; these in turn may disappear as quickly as they developed, 
only to arise again at some other articulation with renewed 
virulence, usually terminating in suppuration; moist and swollen 
condition of the navel, from the center of which there may be a 
discharge of ichorous pus, and immediately connected with this 
may be a pervious urachus, which is not, however, an inperative 
condition, and if present is readily recognized by the almost 
constant dribbling of urine from the umbilicus, which, during 
the first stages of the disease, is secreted in large quantities, 
light in color and acid in reaction; constipation of the bowels, 
which may soon be followed by diarrhoea, the faecal matter 
being clay-colored and emitting an extremely offensive stench ; 
fainting spells have been observed as the disease advances, 
abscesses appear in various parts of the body, and if not opened 
surgically, will burst, allowing the escape of a creamy and 
offensive smelling pus, the discharge being especially foetid if 
joints and ligaments are affected. 
Post-mortem examinations of colts that have died of this 
malady, disclose many lesions, such as dilatation of the umbili¬ 
cal vein containing a thrombus surrounded by an accumulation 
of discolored or greyish-white purulent matter, deep-seated 
muscular and superficial abscesses; liver is enlarged, friable and 
clay-colored, with localized accumulations of pus, inflammation 
of the lungs, with abscesses in their parenchyma; the latter may 
