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the formation of clots in the heart and large vessels and advocates 

 the free use of the salts of ammonia and potash with stimulants. 

 The treatment does not essentially differ from that of equine in- 

 fluenza except in the call for special applications to the inflamed 

 eyes and infiltrated limbs. 



PETECHIAL FEVER. ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC— 

 AN AS ARCOUS -TOXEMIA. 



Synonyms. Definition. Causes, obscure, bacteria variable, pus microbes 

 no active contagion, toxic products, any toxin causing vaso-dilatation , exam- 

 ples, toxins from fermenting ingesta, debility ; impaired innervation, nutri- 

 tion and function ; gravitation ; primary and secondary forms : predisposing 

 diseases. Lesions : petechise and slight blood extravasations in skin, sub- 

 cutis, mucosa, submucosa, serosse, and solid tissues, largest in soft tissues ; 

 round cutaneous swellings one to two inches across, patches, cracks, oozing, 

 fissures, sloughs, section shows yellow serous and blood infiltrations, capil- 

 laries greatly dilated, infiltrated thickened mucosae, blocked nasal passages, 

 ulcers, serous and bloody discharges, pharynx, larynx, lungs, stomach, intes- 

 tines, kidneys, blood firm or diffluent. Symptoms : Hyperthermia, nasal 

 petechise, extravasation, pink or yellow oozing, swellings on nose, lips, face, 

 limbs, oozing, cracks, sloughs, turning up of toe from detachment of 

 the flexors, metastasis from skin to lungs, or abdomen, dyspnoea, colics, 

 serous or bloody diarrhoea. Course. Duration : acute two days, average 

 one to three weeks, tardy one to two months, Diagnosis : from glanders, 

 anthrax, urticaria, malignant oedema, horse pox. Mortality. Prognosis : 

 50 per cent,: hopeless and grave indications. Sudden retrocession. Treat- 

 ment : excellent sanitary conditions, cleanliness, air, light, green food or 

 mashes, pure water, laxative food, or salts, diuretics, alkaline diuretics, 

 vaso-motor contractors, antiseptics, quinine, strychnine, phenic acid, lysol, 

 ichthyol, sulphites, etc. ; locally aluminium acetate, cold water, scarification, 

 nasal injections and tubes, tracheal iodine injections, argentum colloidale 

 intravenously, antistreptococcic serum subcutem, Menveux's solution. 



Synonyms . Purpura Hsemorrhagica ; Morbus Maculosus ; 

 Anasarca (Fr.); Typhus: Anthrax; Dropsy of Connective Tis- 

 sue ; Mai de Tete de Contagion ; Coryza Gangreno.sa ; Malleus 

 Gangrenosa ; Charbon Blanc ; Diastashemia ; Leucophlegmasia. 



Definition. An acute (or subacute), toxsemic, generally sec- 

 ondary disease, manifested by capillary dilatation and petechise 

 on the mucosae, skin, serosae and elsewhere, and attended by ex- 

 tensive effusions of lymph and blood into the skin and connective 



