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fumes and gases. He sliould be fed from a manger high enough to favor 

 the return of blood from the head, and shoukl be kept from work, 

 especially in a tight collar, which would prevent the descent of blood 

 by the jugular veins. His diet should be laxative and non-stimulating 

 (grass, bran mashes, carrots, turnips, beets, potatoes, or steamed hay), 

 and any costiveness should be corrected by a mild dose of linseed oil (1 

 to 1^ pints). In cold weather warm blanketing may be needful, and 

 even loose flannel bandages to the limbs, and heat should never be 

 sought at the expense of pure air. 



(2) In inflammations due to local irritants of a non-infective kind, a 

 careful examination will usually reveal their presence, and the first step 

 must be their removal with a pair of blunt forceps or the point of a lead 

 pencil. Subsequent treatment will be in the main the local treatment 

 advised above. 



(3) In case of infective inflammation, there will often be found a prick 

 or tear by which the septic matter has entered, and in such case the 

 inflammation will for a time be concentrated at that point. A round 

 or conical swelling round an insect bite is especially characteristic. A 

 snake bite is marked by the double prick made by the two teeth and 

 by the violent and rapidly spreadiug inflammation. Erysipelas is at- 

 tended with much swelling, extending beyond the lids, and causing the 

 mucous membrane to protrude beyond the edge of the eyelid (chemosis). 

 This is characterized by a bright, uniform, rosy red, disappearing on 

 pressure, or later by a dark, livid hue, but with less branching redness 

 than in noninfecting inflammation, and less of the dark, dusky, brown- 

 ish or yellowish tint of anthrax. Little vesicles may appear on the 

 skin, and j^us may be found without any distinct limiting membrane, as 

 in abscess. It is early attended by high fever and marked general 

 weakness and inappetence. Anthrax of the lids is marked by a firm 

 swelling, surmounted by a blister, with bloody serous contents, which 

 tends to burst aud dry up into a slough, while the surrounding parts 

 become involved in the same way. Or it may show as a diff"use dropsi- 

 cal swelling, with less of the hard central sloughing nodule, but like 

 that tending to spread quickly. In both cases alike the mucous mem- 

 brane and the skin, if white, assume a dusky brown or yellowish brown 

 hue, which is largely characteristic. This may pass into a black color 

 by reason of the extravasation of blood. There appears early great 

 constitutional disturbance, with much prostration and weakness and 

 generalized anthrax symptoms. 



The treatment of these will vary according to the severity. Insect 

 bites may be touched with a solution of equal parts of glycerine and 

 aqua ammonia, or a 10 per cent, solution of carbolic acid in water. 

 Snake bites may be bathed with aqua ammonia, and the same agent 

 given in doses of 2 teaspoonfuls in a quart of water. Or alcohol may 

 be given in pint or quart doses, according to the size of the animal. In 

 erysipelas the skin may be painted with tincture of muriate of iron, or 



