INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 755 



CYSTITIS 



Syringe female bladder with alkaline solutions when urine acrid ; when 



foetid, with benzoic acid or dilute copper sulphate. 

 Astringents, buchu, eucalyptus oil in chronic vesical catarrh. 

 Irrigation with solution ferric chloride, adrenalin, alum, or tannin in 



hsemorrhagic cases. 



DEBILITY. 



Weakness. Endeavour to remove cause. 

 Easily assimilated nutritive food, cod-liver oil, milk, malt extract ; suit- 



able hygiene. 



Acids, bitters, quinine when gastric digestion weak. 

 Alcoholic stimulants when heart action feeble. 

 Laxatives when elimination of waste defective. 

 Calcium phosphate and fatty matters useful in young animals. 

 Nux-vomica and glycerophosphates in nervous debility. 

 Iron salts when associated with anaemia. 



Arsenic, pepsin, or liq. pancreatis when assimilation is at fault. 

 Cold sponging and baths for dogs. 



DELIRIUM. 



Perversion and inco-ordination of brain functions. 

 For vigorous patients cold affusion applied cautiously. 

 Ice and refrigerants to head. 



Perfect quiet, cathartics, salines, digestible cooling diet. 

 Chloroform, cannabis indica, bromides, internally. 

 Alcohol, ammonia, belladonna, camphor, when associated with exhaus- 



tion. 

 Blood-letting in delirium, resulting from injuries, in earlier acute stages 



of phrenitis, and in robust subjects. 



DENTITION FEVER. 



Not infrequent in horses. 

 Soft laxative food, rest, salines, febrifuges. 

 Lance gums if absolutely needful. 



Remove temporary teeth interfering with eruption of permanent. 

 When dentition of dogs delayed or defective give calcium phosphate. 



DIABETES INSIPIDUS. 



Polyuria ; Excessive secretion of urine. Peculiar to horses. Caused 

 apparently by some toxic material derived frequently from faulty 

 food, as heated, musty grain or fodder, or produced in connection 

 with such diseases as influenza and glanders ; seldom fatal. 

 Half dose physic, especially when digestion out of order. 

 Iodine with pot. iodide, either in bolus or solution. 

 With iodide alternate or conjoin iron salts or sodium bromide. 

 Chalk or whiting in manger, or sodium bicarbonate in water, counteracts 



acidity frequently present. 

 Phosphoric acid and bitters lessen thirst. 



Careful feeding ; change food. Avoid stale, damp, badly-saved fodder, 

 or musty, unsound grain. Allow moderate supply of water. 



DIABETES, SACCHARINE. 



Diabetes mellitus. Pathology not explained. Occasionally occurs in 



dogs, very rarely in horses or cattle. 

 Relief afforded by withholding carbo-hydrates, substituting soup, cooked 



animal food and milk. 

 Codeine and iodine ; antipyrine ; sodium salicylate. 



DIAPHRAGMATIC SPASM. 



Usually resulting from over-exertion or acute gastric derangement ; 

 specially observed in horses and dogs ; intermittent, seldom lasting 

 many hours. 

 Chloral hydrate and alcohol per oa ; rest patient. 



