. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . pain of inflamed serous membrane, moreespecially of inflamed pleura, is of a sharp, darting kind, giving riseto colicky symptoms. In traumatic peritonitis, on the contrary,although the pain may be excessive, the animal does not alwaysexhibit it, owing to the prostration which is present. The pain ofinflamed mucous membrane is dull, or simply an uneasiness notamounting to actual pain. But pain is not a constant symptomof inflammation, and of inflammation without it the followingmay be enumerated :—Insidious and indolent forms of scrofulousin
. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . pain of inflamed serous membrane, moreespecially of inflamed pleura, is of a sharp, darting kind, giving riseto colicky symptoms. In traumatic peritonitis, on the contrary,although the pain may be excessive, the animal does not alwaysexhibit it, owing to the prostration which is present. The pain ofinflamed mucous membrane is dull, or simply an uneasiness notamounting to actual pain. But pain is not a constant symptomof inflammation, and of inflammation without it the followingmay be enumerated :—Insidious and indolent forms of scrofulousinflammation, especially in horned cattle, in which extensivedisorganizations are often produced without the animal everhaving manifested any signs of pain; inflammation of a para- 20 INFLAMMATION. lyzed part, with sloughing, as in the posterior extremities, afterparturient apoplexy; or that inflammation occurring in thefoot, pastern, and fetlock of the horse, after neurotomy has beenperformed; typhoid inflaimnation of the lungs, where little indi-. ^^^^^ i Fio. 4 shows the immensely enlarged condition of the coronet and pastern, frominflammation and gelatinous degeneration, succeeding neurotomy, a, Toe of foot;b. Fetlock pad. cation has been shown during life, and it must also be presumedthat the formation of pulmonary abscesses in glanders is un-attended by pain. We therefore conclude that the absence ofpain is no indication of the absence of inflammation, and thatthe presence of pain is not impossible without this we have many examples, as in spasmodic colic, wherepain is intense; in tetanus, and in cramp of the voluntarymuscles. One peculiar case came under my immediate know-ledge, where pain was present to a most exquisite degree, with-out either spasm or inflammation, and where the external iliacartery of the near (left) side was plugged by a fibrinous clot(embolus). The animal while at rest exhibited nothing unusual,but if put to work in the carriage he w
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