Synonyms. Definition. Causes, obscure, bacteria variable, pus microbes no active contagion, toxic products, any toxin causing vaso-dilatation, examples, toxins from fermenting ingesta, debility; impaired innervation, nutrition and function; gravitation; primary and secondary forms: predisposing diseases. Lesions: petechiæ and slight blood extravasations in skin, subcutis, mucosa, submucosa, serosæ, and solid tissues, largest in soft tissues; round cutaneous swellings one to two inches across, patches, cracks, oozing, fissures, sloughs, section shows yellow serous and blood infiltrations, capillaries greatly dilated, infiltrated thickened mucosæ, blocked nasal passages, ulcers, serous and bloody discharges, pharynx, larynx, lungs, stomach, intestines, kidneys, blood firm or diffluent. Symptoms: Hyperthermia, nasal petechiæ, extravasation, pink or yellow oozing, swellings on nose, lips, face, limbs, oozing, cracks, sloughs, turning up of toe from detachment of the flexors, metastasis from skin to lungs, or abdomen, dyspnœa, colics, serous or bloody diarrhœa. Course. Duration: acute two days, average one to three weeks, tardy one to two months, Diagnosis: from glanders, anthrax, urticaria, malignant œdema, horse pox. Mortality. Prognosis: 50 per cent.: hopeless and grave indications. Sudden retrocession. Treatment: excellent sanitary conditions, cleanliness, air, light, green food or mashes, pure water, laxative food, or salts, diuretics, alkaline diuretics, vaso-motor contractors, antiseptics, quinine, strychnine, phenic acid, lysol, ichthyol, sulphites, etc.; locally aluminium acetate, cold water, scarification, nasal injections and tubes, tracheal iodine injections, argentum colloidale intravenously, antistreptococcic serum subcutem, Menveux’s solution. _Synonyms._ Purpura Hæmorrhagica; Morbus Maculosus; Anasarca (Fr.); Typhus: Anthrax; Dropsy of Connective Tissue; Mal de Tete de Contagion; Coryza Gangrenosa; Malleus Gangrenosa; Charbon Blanc; Diastashemia; Leucophlegmasia. _Definition._ An acute (or subacute), toxæmic, generally secondary disease, manifested by capillary dilatation and petechiæ on the mucosæ, skin, serosæ and elsewhere, and attended by extensive effusions of lymph and blood into the skin and connective tissue, to form hot, tender, nodular, diffused, or general swellings.