_ the horse a recent proposition. About seventy-five years ago the beauty “tl 
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In some cases of a very severe type sloughing of the tissues may spell | 
to the more deeply seated structure, and involve the muscles, ligame® | 
sometimes even leading to necrosis of bone. In other cases the pus may fint™ | 
way into the joints, causing their disintegration, and producing constituto™ | 
disturbance so serious as to prove fatal. The mucous membrane of the mom | 
and nose may also become affected. In phlegmonous erysipelas the fever Hd | 
very severe. The pulse is quick and feeble; the respirations are hurried,*, | 
the pain is intense. Erysipelas may be confounded with scarlatina, farcy, na ; 
lymphagitis, but by carefully noting the symptoms they are easily distinguish 
Treatment.—The patient should be placed in a well-ventilated loose Wes | q 
aperients such as small doses of calomel or aloes, or both, may be gives ale} 
they usually abate irritation. A few doses of aconite relieve acute fe) 
symptoms. If the temperature be very high, salicylic acid my be tried m | 
doses, twice or thrice daily. Salines, such as potassium chlorate, may” | 
dissolved in the water during the acme of the fever. If the thirst be great % | 
the disease progresses, stimulants become necessary to sustain strength, fe if 
aromatic spirit of ammonia in doses of 2 oz., or whisky in doses of 3 or 4°} 
may be given three times daily ; milk and eggs and beef tea should be give?” | 
weakly patients especially, and also quinine. y 
Local Treatment.—Hot fomentations persevered with for several hours, aah 
affected surfaces subsequently moistened with borax solution and laudat al 
If abscesses form they should be opened, so as to allow of the escape of PUY | 
and the parts should be dressed with carbolic solution (1 part in 40), } 
scarification of phlegmonous swellings is rarely justifiable. Cleanliness, 8° | 
sanitary surroundings, and generous diet are essential. . 
THE ZEBROID. 
the best known zebra at this time. It is a species which is still come 
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called the zebroid. It seems that the proposition to cross this zebra up0? py 
common horse is not a new idea, nor is the use of the zebra as a substitute 
the horse-like behaviour of the species induced the suggestion that only # 7 os | 
skill and patience were required to make the animal available for man’s "4 | 
The fact that the zebra is much better adapted by its structure and form se 
these uses than any of the wild asses led to the belief that the cross wi?” | 
horse would produce something better than the mule. 
