the violent and rapidly spreading inflammation. Erysipelas is attended
with much swelling, extending beyond the lids and causing the mucous
membrane to protrude beyond the edge of the eyelid (chemosis). This is
characterized by a bright, uniform, rosy red, disappearing on pressure,
or later by a dark, livid hue, but with less branching redness than in
noninfecting inflammation and less of the dark, dusky, brownish or
yellowish tint of anthrax. Little vesicles may appear on the skin, and
pus may be found without any distinct limiting membrane, as in abscess.
It is early attended with high fever and marked general weakness and
inappetence. Anthrax of the lids is marked by a firm swelling,
surmounted by a blister, with bloody serous contents, which tends to
burst and dry up into a slough, while the surrounding parts become
involved in the same way. Or it may show as a diffuse, dropsical
swelling, with less of the hard, central sloughing nodule, but, like
that, tending to spread quickly. In both cases alike the mucous membrane
and the skin, if white, assumes a dusky-brown or yellowish-brown hue,
which is largely characteristic. This may pass into a black color by
reason of extravasation of blood. Great constitutional disturbance
appears early, with much prostration and weakness and generalized
anthrax symptoms.

_Treatment._--The treatment will vary according to the severity. Insect
bites may be touched with a solution of equal parts of glycerin and aqua
ammonia, or a 10 per cent solution of carbolic acid in water. Snake
bites may be bathed with aqua ammonia, and the same agent given in doses
of 2 teaspoonfuls in a quart of water, or alcohol may be given in pint
or quart doses, according to the size of the animal. In erysipelas the
skin may be painted with tincture of chlorid of iron, or with a solution
of 20 grains of iodin in an ounce of carbolic acid, and one-half an
ounce of tincture of chlorid of iron may be given thrice daily in a
bottle of water. In anthrax the swelling should be painted with tincture
of iodin, or of the mixture of iodin and carbolic acid, and if very
threatening it may have the tincture of iodin injected into the swelling
with a hypodermic syringe, or the hard mass may be freely incised to its
depth with a sharp lancet and the lotion applied to the exposed tissues.
Internally, iodid of potassium may be given in doses of 2 drams thrice a
day, or tincture of the chlorid of iron every four hours.