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usually be removed by touching it daily with a camel's hair 

 brush dipped in a solution of silver nitrate ( i : 200) . 



In the more severe cases antiseptic lotions are even more es- 

 sential, mercuric chloride (1:5000), potassium permanganate 

 (i : 100), boric acid (i : 100), silver nitrate (i :2oo). Careful 

 massage is of value. 



Ulcers may be touched daily with a solution of silver nitrate 

 (i : 400), or of pyoktannin (i : 100). 



Perforations must be treated by antiseptic bandage, eserin, 

 and in case of necessity, iridectomy as advised under perforating 

 wounds. 



Abscesses of the cornea should be opened with a flamed needle 

 and treated with antiseptic lotions. 



Obstinate cases are often benefitted by ointment of yellow oxide 

 of mercury i, vaseline 10, or by the red oxide of mercury or 

 calomel. 



POISONING WITH COTTON SEED OR COTTON SEED 



MEAL. 



Poisons in cotton plant : on man, pig, cow, stock cattle. Symptoms in 

 latter : Nervousness, debility, exhaustion, in- coordination, paresis, dysp- 

 noea, dullness, anorexia, drooping head, trembling, lachrymation, corneal 

 ulcer, opacity, vesiculation ; unilateral or bilateral ; with rest and change 

 of food recover in five days except eye lesions. Treatment ; suspend cot- 

 ton seed, purge, and treat eye lesions. 



The cotton plant develops poisons for various genera of ani- 

 mals. The bark of the root is a favorite abortifacient for woman 

 and may be used for the same purpose in the domestic animals. 

 The seed when fed continuously to swine will destroy life with 

 symptoms of scorbutus, and grave constitutional disorders. Cot- 

 ton seed meal fed in excess to dairy cows has a bad reputation 

 for inducing garget and mammitis. In stock cattle it has the 

 reputation of producing diarrhoea, running from the eyes, ab- 

 scess and ulceration of the cornea, staphyloma, hyperthermia 

 (103° to 109° F.), swelled legs, congestion of the liver and 

 spleen, and high colored urine". As described by Dr. F. C. 

 McCurdy, of Kansas City, the southern cattle arrive in poor con- 

 dition, seem nervous, weak and exhausted, move with an uncer- 



