EPIZOOTIC CELLULITIS: PINK EYE.
Williams follows a popular fashion in describing under the above names an affection which may be only a form of equine influenza, but which may be named by itself until its true place can be defined by proof of its actual pathogenic microörganism.
Beside the general constitutional disturbance, this condition is distinguished by marked hyperthermia (103° to 104°), swollen, congested, watering eyelids, cough, strong pulse becoming gradually feeble, firmly coagulating blood, irritable bowels, painful passage of fæces, and, above all, a frequent movement of the feet indicative of discomfort and followed by swelling, often excessive, of the limb or limbs, by a cutaneous and subcutaneous exudate. These various phenomena may all be but manifestations of the rather protean disease, equine influenza, and the cellulitis but variations of the rheumatoid and arthritic forms which are so common in the regular type of that disease in cold or wet climates, or seasons. Williams claims that a prominent danger is the formation of clots in the heart and large vessels and advocates the free use of the salts of ammonia and potash with stimulants. The treatment does not essentially differ from that of equine influenza except in the call for special applications to the inflamed eyes and infiltrated limbs.