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Treatment. A purgative dose of aloes is given first, 

 on general principles. Specific treatment in the form 

 of streptobacterins gives fine results. The local mani- 

 festations respond most promptly to painting with tinc- 

 ture of chlorid of iron once or tmce daily. This brings 

 even severe cases to a prompt and satisfactory end. 



Erysipelas is one of the examples found in veterinary 

 pathology that serves as a good illustration of the differ- 

 ence existing in similar infections between animals and 

 human beiags. Clinically, erysipelas in animals does not 

 compare with the same disease in human beings, and this 

 is one of the chief reasons why erysipelatous infections 

 in animals are tisually not recognized as such clinically. 

 The erysipelatous infection that is most commonly seen 

 in animals is not nearly so grave in character as the 

 usual erysipelatous infection occurring in human beings. 

 I make this notation particularly for the reason that most 

 text-books attempt to make an even comparison between 

 the erysipelas of horses and the erysipelas of human 

 beings. This tendency is the result of the all-too-common 

 custom of permitting physicians to conduct the course in 

 pathology in veterinary colleges. 



