758 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



DYSENTERY continued. 



are numerous bacteria. Mortality 10 to 80 per cent. Observed to 



concur with epizootic abortion (Friedberger). 

 Isolation of infected ; thorough disinfection. 



Antiseptic treatment of females aborting and parturient. See ABORTION. 

 At first, sodium sulphate, then ipecacuanha in linseed tea. 

 Castor oil and grey powder, intestinal antiseptics, tannates. 

 Well-boiled starch gruel or other mucilage, with a few drops laudanum. 

 Salicylic and tannic acids with chamomile infusion. 

 Rhubarb, magnesium carbonate, and opium. 

 Chlorodyne, tannoform, or resorcin, with laudanum ; acetate of lead. 



DYSPEPSIA. INDIGESTION. 



Treatment varies with cause and nature of attack. Suitable dietary. 

 Avoid indigestible food and long fasts. Rectify irregularity of 

 bowels. Enjoin exercise. 

 Resulting from over-eating, an emetic for dogs ; cathartic for animals 



that do not vomit. 

 For flatulence, essential oils, ginger, hydrochloric acid, ether ; pass 



probang in cattle. 



For gastric catarrh, ammonium chloride, sodium hyposulphite, frag- 

 ments of ice. 



Alkalies, chalk, magnesia, given before feeding or with food. 

 For atonic forms, in cattle, mineral acids, usually more permanently 



useful, are given with bitters and pilocarpine. 



Pepsin with glycerin for dogs and young animals while living on milk. 

 Where food irritates, provoking diarrhoea, bismuth salts or arsenic with 



morphine. 



Depending upon worms appropriate vermicides. 

 In chronic dyspepsia, obviate errors of diet or management, examine 



teeth, change food. 

 Provide horses with whiting and rock salt to lick. Try daily A Ib. 



linseed cake or hay-tea. 

 Restrict cattle to mash diet for two days, and add salt and treacle to 



drinking water, pilocarpine subcutaneously. 

 Both in hoven and overloading with dry food rub left Hank and belly ; 



soap and water enemata ; rumenotomy. 



DYSPNCEA. 



Difficult breathing. 



Discover and, if possible, remove cause. 

 Fresh air ; chloroform, inhaled or swallowed. 

 Chloral hydrate in spray or draught. 

 Belladonna extract and ether. 

 Amyl-nitrite ; nitro-glycerin in angina pectoris. 



Counter-irritants if due to congestion or inflammation of air-passages. 

 Tracheotomy where obstruction occurs in upper air-passages. 



ECLAMPSIA. 



Epileptiform spasms, cause unknown. Most common in very young 

 subjects, dogs during teething, and from worms, occasionally in 

 bitches nursing. Cases in milch cows have been recorded. 

 Remove any exciting cause ; attend to general health. 

 Pot. bromide, chloral, morphine hydrochloride hypodermically, or 

 chloroform inhalation where excitement considerable. 



ECTHYMA. 



American skin disease ; eruption of papules and subsequently pustules. 



Affects horses, sheep, and dogs. 



Laxative salines remove gastro-intestinal or other irritants. 

 Exercise further hastens removal of waste products. 

 Digestible, rather laxative, dietary. 



