PYO-SEPTHAMIE IN FOALS CAUSED BY PHLEBITIS UMBILICALIS. 
open into the bronchial tubes, thereby producing a diffuse puru¬ 
lent bronchitis; pleuritis, with serous exudate in thoracic cavity; 
the heart, spleen and kidneys present structural changes, in¬ 
flammation of the bowels extending to the mesenteric glands ; 
arthritis with purulent infiltration, often to such an extent 
that bones, cartilages, ligaments and periosteum have become 
macerated. 
If the veterinarian is called in during the first stages, when 
the disease has not extended beyond the navel and navel vein, 
then a favorable prognosis can be given as the omphalitis is 
only local and amenable to treatment; if, on the other hand, he 
is not consulted until a generalized metastatic pyaemia has been 
established, then the prognosis must be guarded. 
Siedamgrotzky places the death-rate at 75% Hering cites 
a record kept of a breeding establishment in Germany for fifteen 
years, and says that of 187 colts that died there during that 
interval, 85 succumbed to this malady, and of 67 colts attacked 
by the disease, 47 died before reaching the age of three 
weeks. 
In order to prevent the trouble the mare should be placed in 
a stall before foaling where the surroundings are in a perfect 
hygienic condition, and not into a stall that has been used for 
the purpose recently, unless it has been thoroughly cleaned and 
disinfected. If the season of the year and other conditions are 
favorable, a cleaned pasture field is preferred; if the colt is 
foaled in pasture, let it alone by all means, unless there are in¬ 
dications of disease; if born in stable, have the latter kept 
clean, wash the navel several times daily with some antiseptic 
lotion, or dust the parts with equal portions of iodoform and 
boracic acid, over which apply a pledget of absorbent cotton, 
to be kept in place by a bandage around the body. This should 
be carefully attended to until all danger of infection at the um¬ 
bilicus is past; ligating the latter, as recommended by some 
authors, should not be practiced under any circumstances. 
Some German authors advise an application of pine tar to the 
navel at or soon after birth. 
