764 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



FLEAS. 



Pulex irritans and others. Infest dogs, cats, pigeons, and poultry. 

 Soap and water ; cleanliness of skin and surroundings. 

 Turpentine, aniseed, or other volatile oils. Sassafras oil effectual. 

 Insect powders ; stavesacre decotion ; tobacco water ; warm lysol 



solution one per cent. 

 Pine shavings or sawdust for dog's bed. 



FLYBLOW. 



Affecting wounds ; specially troublesome in sheep. 



Prevent fly striking by dressings of corrosive sublimate solution, 

 turpentine, tar oil, or tar. 



FOOT-ROT IN SHEEP. 



(1) Abrasions of horn from injuries, rough ground, long journeys; the 

 exposed secreting surfaces, especially of the sole, becoming inflamed by 

 dirt and grit insinuating under the damaged crust. Non-contagious. 



(2) A specific contagious inflammation caused by the bacillus necrophorns. 

 It commences at the sole or between the claws and, gradually extend- 

 ing, causes changes in the bones and tendons, with degeneration of 

 horn, suppuration and sloughing. The discharge in contact with sound 

 feet, or introduced by inoculation into the bodies of healthy sheep, 

 produces the disease in fourteen to twenty-one days. 



The non-contagious form cured by placing diseased sheep on dry soils, 



removing loose horn, dressing fungus growths with mild caustics. 

 The contagious form necessitates separation of affected sheep, dressing 



them daily or thrice a week. 

 One part carbolic acid, ten glycerin, applied between the claws ; loose 



and diseased horn removed by knife. 

 Fungous growths cauterised with mixture of copper sulphate and crude 



carbolic acid made into paste with vaseline. 

 Mercuric nitrate, zinc or iron chloride solutions also useful. 

 Protect surfaces with tar dressing or guttapercha varnish. 

 Drive sheep twice a week over ground strewn three inches thick with 



freshly-slaked lime. 

 Walk sheep through astringent foot-bath, one part copper sulphate to 



fifty parts water. 

 Prevent introduction of disease by three weeks' quarantine of fresh 



purchases. 



' FOUL IN FEET' OF CATTLE. 



A popular, somewhat indefinite term applied to chronic disease with 

 necrosis of the feet of cattle, usually resulting from neglected 

 injuries, or from tuberculous inflammation. 



Cleanse, foment ; remove loose and diseased horn, and disinfect. 

 Dress with copper sulphate, carbolic acid, or other antiseptic. 

 Keep foot dry by tarred bandages. 

 Where disease is deep-seated, or intractable, amputate claw. 



FOUNDER. See LAMINITIS. 



FOWL CHOLERA. 



Affects all species of birds, and by inoculation is produced in rabbits, 

 pigeons, and white mice. Its essential features are croupous and 

 haemorrhagic inflammation of the mucous membrane and follicles of 

 the intestine, similar conditions usually attacking lungs arid heart. 

 It runs its course in thirty-six hours ; 90 per cent. die. It is caused 

 by a minute bacterium. 



The premises should be swept ; all litter, manure, and dead birds burned. 



Walls, woodwork, cribs, repeatedly washed with boiling water, contain- 

 ing carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, or 5 per cent, sulphuric acid. 



Fumigate with sulphurous acid or chlorine. 



