The microbes from the unhealthy and infected wound in the navel pass into the system through the veins, or lymphatics, and form colonies and local Inflammations and abscesses in and around the joints.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
In fevers and Inflammations and in local diseases of the heart the pulse rate is increased.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
If they were kept closed for more than two days, it was no uncommon thing to find two or three children or invalids among the unfortunate emigrants dead of slow suffocation; and many of those who were alive would later have pneumonia and other Inflammations of the lungs.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson