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sing. These measures are generally sufficient to arrest the progress of the’ 
disease. 
The curative treatment is composed principally of external applications. 
After Tixer and Delamotte, several veterinarians have tried without suc- 
cess internal treatment with arsenious acid, kermes, iodide of potassium,, 
mercurial compounds, nux vomica, tincture of iodine, hyposulphite of soda. 
To this day, however, we do not know of therapeutic agents, which, given 
internally, arrest the pullulation of the pathogenous element. To give 
the patient a nourishing food is the important indication; and tonics 
and stimulants are useful. 
Every author recommends to open the buttons with the red iron; to 
render the cauterization deeper, some dust the tract made by the iron 
with sulphur powder and burn it over. Decroix added to these points one 
line of deep cauterization applied transversely in front of the lymphatic: 
swelling, which never went beyond this barrier. Nocard has advised a free 
incision in the whole length ofthe cord and the destruction of its internal. 
wall by curetting or actual cauterization. Others have recommended the 
extirpation of the cord with the thermo-cautery, taking with it some of 
the healthy tissues. Peuch has seen this done with complete success. 
Jacoulet has warmly recommended the free extirpation of the cord and of 
its glands. The operation is simple when the cord is small and well de-. 
fined ; it becomes very difficult when the swelling is large, extending from 
one end of the leg to the other, specially when the cord, the vessels and. 
nerves are involved in the same fibrous thickening. On this account,. 
extirpation remains limited to few special cases. Points firing with 
free incision of the cord and curetting are specially applicable to extensive 
lesions. To stimulate the cicatrization of wounds thus made, several 
topics have been recommended; blisters, tents soaked in camphorated 
and phenicated alcohol (Wiart), burnt alum, sulphate of copper, Rabel 
solution, nitrate of silver, tincture of iodine, diluted nitric acid. Anti- 
septic liquids (injections, baths, repeated sprays, with solution of cresyl. 
or phenic acid 3-4 p. 100, sublimate 1. p. 1000) and dressing with iodo- 
form, deserve preference over the others. 
Actively treated, the affection ends ordinarily by recovery after a lapse- 
of time varying between several weeks and two months. In some cases,. 
cicatrization of the wounds has required five, six and seven months. 
Besides the traumatic lymphangitis and the pseudo farcinous form, 
other lymphatic inflammations are met with in animals which are due to- 
special parasites or to specific processes. 
The farcy of oxen, very rare in France, common at the Guadaloupe, has. 
for principal manifestation a suppurative inflammation of the lymphatic 
vessels and glands. The disease may invade the visceras (spleen, liver, 
