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Treatment. Compression, by flannel or elastic bandage, from 

 the foot upward, is the simplest and most promising treatment 

 when the limb is affected. The local application of cold, astrin- 

 gents or iodine may be added. Punctures, ligatures, and cauter- 

 ization have not given encouraging results. I/igature of the nu- 

 trient artery of the part, has succeeded in one or two cases, but 

 has failed in others. Tonics are to be tried more particularly in 

 cases due to specific debilitating diseases. Sometimes a sponta- 

 neous recovery has been noticed when the surrounding con- 

 nective tissue has increased and contracted in connection with 

 inflarrimation. 



