Prevention in these affections is much better than cure. The treatment of a recent case of pelvic cellulitis must be energetically antiseptic. The seat of the infection must be discovered; the vagina or cavity of the uterus, as the case may be, must be thoroughly washed out with a 1 to 2,000 corrosive sublimate solution. After a thorough disinfection, the inflammation and pain can be checked or controlled by the application of ice bags; this is the remedy _par excellence_ to check acute inflammatory processes. These bags are preferably of rubber, about 4x6 inches in size, and when filled with ice and before applied it is more comfortable to the patient to envelop the bag in a thin layer of flannel, which takes off the clammy coldness. The patient should be kept perfectly quiet and the bowels daily moved by a mild purgative. After the sensitiveness and the fever have subsided, the absorption of the hardened inflammatory remnants is promoted by the daily employment of hot sitz baths and the application of tincture of iodine to the inguinal regions, as well as the use of iodoform suppositories. The employment of blistering fluids or plasters is of no particular value either to check the inflammation or promote the absorption. If there are symptoms of suppuration forming abscesses, these should be freely opened into the vagina and their cavities thoroughly rinsed out with a disinfecting solution. In the case of phlegmasia dolens alba I have used cold water compresses fortified by ice bags with brilliant results, but only after all the other treatments that are laid down in different treatises had been tried, and failed to give the slightest relief. Among these were hot fomentations, large repeated doses of morphine, and liniments of everything that is usually prescribed to relieve pain; for the pain in phlegmasia is sometimes excruciating. My experience of the beneficial effects of ice bags and cold-water compresses in the acute stages of pelvic cellulitis and perimetritis, led me to believe that the same measures would be useful when the cellulitis was in the cellular tissue of the extremities, which constitutes phlegmasia dolens, ignorantly termed milk leg. This appeared to be heroic treatment to the patient, who dreaded the shock and feared bad consequences, but she finally consented. The following was my method: an ordinary large towel was dipped into iced water, wrung out and clapped around the affected limb, a heavy flannel roller bandage was then applied from the toes upward to the groin; flannel is preferable, because it does not get hard when moist and remains softer under similar conditions than cotton material. On the most painful parts, like the inner aspects of the thighs, the back of the flexure of the knee, or popletial region, and the calf of the leg, I laid rubber bags filled with ice in addition to the cold-water compresses; these were kept in place by a circular binder independent and outside of the roller bandage.