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prescribed. The patient shall be kept in a warm stable, protected from 
drafts of air and dampness. In winter, he will be covered with blankets 
and his legs bandaged. For food, he will receive warm mashes. 
Bleeding, advocated for a long time, has a doubtful efficacy. Tartar 
emetic and other agents have also for a long time enjoyed a reputation 
little deserved. To-day all authors agree in recognizing the superiority 
of salicylate preparations. Successively the alkalines, salicyline, 
salicylic acid, have been used, then salicylate of soda, which has shown 
itself more efficacious than the others. To large animals it is given in 
doses from 60 to 100 grammes; to dogs, a few grammes only. This 
agent quietens the pains and lowers the temperature. Lately, antypyrine, 
exalgine, phenacetine, sulphate of quinine, salol, naphtol, have been 
recommended; their action is inferior to that of the treatment by sali- 
cylates. If this should be contra-indicated (renal lesions, albuminuria), 
sulphate of quinine and bicarbonate of soda shall be used. Local 
applications (phenicated or camphorated ointment, that of populeum 
acid, laudanum, poultices) have but little effect. Suppuration, which 
is exceptional, is due to a secondary infection. 
Chronic articular rheumatism may appear at once under that form or ' 
follow the acute state. Swelling and pain vary in their severity. 
Localized to the legs, the affection gives rise to a continued or inter- 
mittent lameness. After a certain time, the articular borders tumefy, 
crackings are heard in the joint, osteophytes develop on the edges 
of the articulation. The lesions keep growing, and become dry de- 
Jormans arthritis. The treatment of this chronic form differs little from 
that of the acute, but is little beneficial. It is again by well under- 
stood hygiene, avoiding cold and dampness, the use of salicylates, bicar- 
bonate of soda, arsenic, that improvement of the general condition can be 
looked for. Locally, tincture of iodine, blisters, cauterization have seemed 
advantageous. If there is large synovial dropsy, puncture is resorted 
to. Ona steer, Persillet has used with success puncture and compres- 
sion with wool bandages. 7 
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Il.—Arthritis of Milch Cows—Post-Partum Arthritis. 
This arthritis, also called pseudo-rheumatismal, is almost always local- 
ized to the stifle, sometimes to the knee or the hock. It is character- 
ized by a severe lameness, swelling of the joint, and synovial dilata- 
tions. Studied by Coulbeaux, Pauleau, Heu, Rossignol, Auer, Fur- 
lanetto, its etiology has remained obscure for a long time. Pauleau, 
who has treated more than eight hundred cases, has remarked that 
“most ordinarily it precedes or follows abortion, or that it manifests 
