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tion when I saw it an hour later was, the parts were very 
hard and circulation was partially strangled ; the animal was 
in great pain; the lower surface of each lobe was dark with 
blood. Temperature 105 1-5 F., pulse full and 80 per minute 
Treatment: gave tinct. aconite rad. in fifteen-minute dose* 
every three hours until pain abated; gave injections of warn 
water after scarifying the lower part of each lobe, following up 
with injections of ice water every four hours and after eacl 
injection inserted a suppository of sulph. zinc 3 iss, vaselim 
§ iii, and kept the protruding parts anointed with the same 
and for an antiseptic, carbolic acid, 1 to 30 of vaseline appliec 
twice a day to part. The third day the superior lobe gradu 
ally decreased and by the eighth day the other lobe had dis 
appeared. 
During this time the horse was fed oats in sheaf with th< 
straw cut off, all the water he wanted to drink ; gave nit 
potassa 3 iss, hyposulphite soda 3 ii twice daily, following u] 
with a tonic of nux. vomica pulv. 3 i twice a day in feed 
The patient regained his spirits a week after the treatmen 
and now does hard work under the saddle. 
No cause can be given, for no other horse was with him. 
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By Riohakd Middleton, D.Y.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
PHLEGMONOUS ERYSIPELAS IN BOYID.E. 
Locet has seen this disease in his district occurring in the fori 
described below, although previous to this case it had been uti 
known in the neighborhood. The symptoms were constitution; 
as well as local. 
The skin covering the left masseter muscle was enlarged b 
an inflammatory swelling ; the membrane of the mouth hypera 
mic, salivation present. The swelling encroached upon the intei 
maxillary space, and then to the right cheek. At this time tb 
patient experienced anorexia and difficult respiration. Th 
oedema, which extended posteriorly to the sternum, was well df 
