ON SCARLATINA AND ERYSIPELAS. 
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3 (1 . — Still improving. Fifteen minutes’ exercise twice a-day. 
4 ih . — Patient much improved. Discontinue the ball — at night 
I gave 3 ij ant. and 3 iv nitre in gruel. Exercise continued — 
swelling nearly gone. 
7 ih . — The swelling has now completely disappeared; and, 
although very much reduced, he is almost convalescent. 
I minutely examined the breast and neck of this horse where 
the hair was taken off by the blister, without being able to detect 
any thing like scarlatina. 
Remarks . — In the two foregoing cases of erysipelas, each had 
a considerable tumefaction on the nasal bones, which Mr. Per- 
civall considers was produced, when exercising the animal, by the 
dragging of the halter; but this, in my opinion, would be more 
apt to injure the lower jaw than the nasal bones. In none of my 
cases, however, could this happen, as neither of them had on a 
halter, but were placed in a large loose box, which I in such cases 
prefer to forced exercise. 
In order that scarlatina may be the more readily distinguished 
from erysipelas, I may state what I have hitherto found to be a 
few of their diagnostic symptoms. In scarlatina, the eruption 
(which is at its height on the third or fourth day) first appears, 
and the swelling not for some time afterwards; whereas, in ery- 
sipelas, the tumefaction and eruption appear at the same time, and 
are not at their height until the seventh or eight day, and in 
severe cases, even longer. I may also mention, that im erysipelas 
the cuticle of the tumefied parts only desquamated, whereas in 
scarlatina a profusion of scales came off from the whole body. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1845. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
It seems but the other day that we wrote “January, — 44,” and 
now we find ourselves scribbling under the heading of “ January, 
— 45 ;” and thereby once more reminded by that “artful dodge,” 
Old Time, that he has gained the advantage of us since then by 
another year. According to his reckoning we are a year older, 
and our Journal is a year older ; and though it will take a great 
deal to persuade us that the additional year has done much for 
our own constitutions, we hope and trust it has achieved some- 
thing for that of The Veterinarian, about, as it is, to enter its 
