ease the
cough.

The swelling of the glands should be promptly treated by flaxseed
poultices and bathing with warm water, and as soon as there is any
evidence of the formation of matter it should be opened. Prompt action
in this will often save serious complications. Blisters and irritating
liniments should _not_ be applied to the throat. When lung complications
show themselves the horse should have mustard applied to the belly and
to the sides of the chest. When convalescence begins great care must be
taken not to expose the animal to cold, which may bring on relapses, and
while exercise is of great advantage it must not be turned into work
until the animal has entirely regained its strength.

Bacterial vaccines are now being extensively used for the prevention and
treatment of this disease. They are prepared from the specific germ of
the disease and frequently exert a very beneficial influence. A serum is
also being prepared from horses, which is injected with gradually
increasing doses of this germ. This serum possesses considerable
curative value and may prove especially valuable in cases in which the
animals have failed to respond to other forms of treatment, or when
valuable animals are affected with the disease.

PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA.

_Synonyms._--Anasarca; petechial fever; morbus maculosus.

_Definition._--This disease is a septic bacterial intoxication, acute
and infectious in character, and is manifested by edematous swellings of
the subcutaneous connective tissue, and hemorrhages on the mucous
membrane and in the internal organs.

A previous attack of influenza is a common predisposing cause of this
disease, which appears most frequently a few weeks after convalescence
is established. It occurs more frequently in those animals which have
made a rapid convalescence and are apparently perfectly well than it
does in those which have made a slower recovery.

Anasarca commences by symptoms which are excessively variable. The local
lesions may be confined to a small portion of the animal's body and the
constitutional phenomena be nil. The appearance and gravity of the local
lesions may be so unlike, from difference of location, that they seem to
belong to a separate disease, and complications may completely mask the
original trouble.

In the simplest form the first symptom noticed is a swelling, or several
swellings, occurring on the surface of the body--on the forearm, the
leg, the under surface