754 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



COUGH. 



An expiratory explosion forcing open the glottis and following a deep 

 inspiration. More common and serious in horses than other animals. 



Comfortable housing and clothing, pure air, careful feeding. 



Catarrhal. Steam head ; ammonium acetate solution, salines, ether, 

 mustard to throat. 



Bronchial. Ammonium acetate, ipecacuanha, squill, nitrous ether, 

 counter-irritants. 



Dry , with scant, secretion. Amm. acetate or chloride, pot. bicarbonate 

 and chlorate, borax. 



With profuse discharge. Balsams, eucalyptus oil, tar, terebene, creosote, 

 astringent sprays or inhalations. 



Irritable. Demulcents, camphor and belladonna, conium, opium, hydro- 

 cyanic acid, cocaine. 



Reflex. Bromides, chloral hydrate ; remove cause of irritation. 



Verminous. Frequent in calves and lambs. See WORMS. 



COUGH, CHRONIC, OF HORSES. 



Careful dieting, food damped, linseed mash or oil. 

 Expectorant and anodyne electuaries. 

 Intralaryngeal injection of antipyrine solution. 

 Epsom salt or other salines occasionally. 

 Belladonna, camphor, alcohol, tar, creosote, arsenic. 

 Counter-irritants : mustard, mercuric iodide ointment. 



CRIB-BITING AND WIND-SUCKING. 



Iron stable fittings. Feed on the ground. 



If manger used turn when empty into recess in wall. 



Use muzzle, bib, or spiked neck strap ; concentrated digestible food. 



Chalk, antacids, and occasional laxative relieve the indigestion from 



which crib-biter usually suffers. 

 Crib-biter should be placed by himself, as other horses imitate and 



acquire the habit. 



CRURAL PARALYSIS. 



Loss of power in the extensor muscles of the stifle ; frequently 



incurable. 



Slings, fomentations, massage ; intramuscular injections of nerve stimu- 

 lants, strychnine, veratrine ; electricity (Faradic current), blisters, 

 setons, increasing exercise. 



CURB. 



Sprain or injury of calcaneo- cuboid ligament of hock, or of perforatus 



tendon. 



Foment ; refrigerants. 

 Counter-irritants ; mercuric iodide ointment ; if necessary, firing and 



blistering. 



High-heeled shoe, without toe-piece. 

 Rest, especially in young horses. 



Cow-Pox. See VARIOLA. 



CYSTITIS. 



Inflammation of urinary bladder ; of several forms catarrhal, puru- 

 lent, hsemorrhagic, chronic. 



Oleaginous laxatives ; aconite, calomel and opium abate acute fever. 

 Emollient anodyne enemata and suppositories of hyoscyamus, opium or 



belladonna ; urinary disinfectants. 

 Rugs wrung out of boiling water to horse's loins. 

 Mashes, linseed, boiled barley, diluents ; urinary antiseptics, camphoric 



acid. 

 Benzoic, boric, or salicylic acid, borax, or pot. chlorate when urine 



alkaline, fermenting, or offensive. 

 Pot. bicarbonate or other alkalies internally when urine acid and acrid. 



