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given three or four times a day. Tincture chloride 

 of iron has been found very useful in this disease 

 in doses of from fifteen to twenty drops every two 

 hours throughout the disease without reference 

 to the degree of fever or delirium. ^ The best local 

 treatment is to keep the swollen part constantly 

 wet with acetate of lead lotion, strength half an 

 ounce to the quart of water. The effusion of slip- 

 pery elm bark has been used with success, but I 

 have had the most advantage from the use of the 

 lead. The animal should be fed on milk and oat- 

 meal and kept comfortable and given all the cold 

 water it will drink. If blisters form they should 

 be opened to prevent them from communication 

 and the consequent loss of the skin, and dress the 

 opened vesicle with acetate of lead lotion. If gan- 

 grene should take place in a part it may possibly 

 be arrested by applying a blister over the surface 

 of the part affected. Also support the strength 

 of the animal with beef tea and quinine and 

 whisky. It is seldom that the animal recovers 

 after gangrene sets in in any- part of the affected 

 surface. 



