760 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



ECZEMA continued. 



Salicylic acid in strong borax solution also removes scabs ; ichthyol 

 ointment. 



Dress with four parts each pot. carbonate and sublimed sulphur, one 

 oleum picis, thirty each lard and olive oil, leaving dressing on for three 

 or four days, then washing off with soap, alkali, and water. 



Carbolic acid and paraffin ointment, sulphur iodide ointment. 



Mercuric nitrate, or iodine ointments where skin thickened. 



A blister in inveterate cases sometimes re-establishes healthy action. 



Many cases of eczema in dogs are speedily cured by giving a full dose 

 of purgative medicine, dressing the skin with sulphur ointment or 

 one per cent, lysol solution, and by restricting the diet. 



ELEPHANTIASIS OF HORSES. 



Chronic dermatitis with dermal and sub-dermal hypertrophy, vascular 

 stasis, and surface deformation. Affects the limbs, and follows 

 repeated attacks of lymphangitis. 

 When the papillae are seriously enlarged and skin folds formed cure is 



hopeless. 

 Slighter cases cured and others ameliorated by antiseptic treatment. 



See GREASE. 

 Green food, laxatives, diuretics, salines, iodine, and pot. iodide; exercise. 



EMPYEMA. 



Pus in the chest, facial sinus, or other natural cavity. 

 Remove by operation under antiseptic precautions. 



Wash out cavity with warm saline solution, boric acid, hydrogen 

 peroxide, protargol, or other antiseptic. 



EMPHYSEMA, SUBCUTANEOUS. 



Air swelling. Often disappears spontaneously. 

 May puncture, apply pressure, or counter-irritation. 

 Prevent entry of air if emphysema due to wound. 



EMPHYSEMA, PULMONARY. (See Broken Wind. ) 



Occurring in old hard-worked horses. 



Careful dietary, concentrated damped food, occasional linseed mash. 

 Treatment only palliative. 

 No water given within an hour of work. 



Arsenic and belladonna relieve dyspnoea ; laxatives occasionally. 

 Strychnine stimulates the respiratory centre. 



ENDOCARDITIS. 



Inflammation of membrane lining heart cavities and covering valves. 

 More frequent than myocarditis ; occurs especially in horses, cattle, 

 and pigs ; usually as sequel of contagious fevers depending on 

 infection. Acute cases frequently affect left heart, chronic and 

 infective the right. 



Perfect rest and quiet. Seldom curable. 

 Digitalis to steady heart ; quinine and other antipyretics. 

 Frequently repeated stimulants maintain heart action in exhausted 



patients. 

 In rheumatic complications salicylates or pot. bicarbonate. 



ENTERITIS. 



Inflammation of the bowels, is produced by irritants, bacteria, toxins, 

 strongyles. In dogs, cattle, and sheep, the small intestines are 

 chiefly affected. Horses, especially hard-worked, irregularly -fed 

 animals of the heavier breeds, are subject to rapid, usually fatal, 

 haemorrhagic effusion into the submucous tissues of the colon and 

 caecum, and the subserous structures of the attached mesentery. 

 In these equine cases morphine and atropine hypodermically every two 



hours. Ergotin sometimes conjoined with the view of contracting 



blood-vessels ; antiseptics, salol, tannoform, lysol. 



