288 DALD'S VETERINARY MLDICINE AND SURGERY. 
Treatment.—The remedies are hand-rubbing, exercise, and stim 
alating liniment. The best liniment fcr ‘ocal dropsy of this char 
acter is as follows: 
No. 35. Fluid extract of wormwecd...esecesees 4 08. 
Fluid extract of ginger... ...eeeevees 3 OZ. 
Spirits of camphor.....eceeceseeecees I pint. 
Rub the region of tumefaction with a portion of this liniment 
every night. 
When swelling of the limbs do not assume a periodical char- 
acter, and suspicion of predisposition can not be entertained, then, 
in addition to the application of the liniment, give the animal, 
morning and evening, one ounce of the fluid extract of buchu. 
ScaRLATINA (SCARLET FEVER). 
Scarlet fever, or scarletina, as it occurs among horses in the 
United States, is a febrile disease of a very prostrating character ; 
yet it is not considered by the author a contagious malady. It 
has only lately, however, been recognized in this country as a dix 
tinct equine disease, and, being of rather rare occurrence, we know 
but little about it. The cases that have come under the author’s 
treatment were unattended by ulceration of the throat, and this 
may account for the non-contagion; for, in the human subject, 
when ulceration of the throat takes place, the case becomes ma- 
lignant. 
Watson says: “The malignant sore throat may be caught 
from a patient who has mild scarlet fever; and mild scarlet fever 
may, in like manner, be contracted from one who is suffering 
under the malignant sore throat. The two forms graduate insen- 
sibly, in different cases, toward each other; and it would be im- 
possible, even if it were desirable, to draw any strict line of 
separation between them. Many would say, and probably with 
truth, that the difference was this: in the one form, tbe poison cf 
the disorder is seeking its vent, principally, by the throat; in the 
other, by the skin.” It appears, therefore, that in the human 
subject the disease is capable of being communicated at any stage. 
The cases that have come under the author’s notice since he first 
recognized the malady have all been of a mild form; that is te 
say, non-malignant. The limbs, sheath, and pectoral regions were 
excessively dropsical ; the skin was the seat of rash or minute 4l-- 
