768 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



HAEMOPTYSIS. 



Bleeding from the lungs. Occasionally in horses and in other animals. 

 Abundance of fresh air, and, where lungs congested, friction to skin, 



embrocation to legs, which subsequently envelop in flannel 



bandages. 



Ice to swallow ; cold compresses over chest ; ferric chloride or ergot. 

 Alcoholic stimulants, repeated every hour or oftener, to restore balance 



of circulation. 

 Ergotin hypodermically. 



Digitalis or solution adrenalin where heart action weak or irregular. 

 In dogs and small animals moisten chest externally with chloroform. 



HEMORRHAGE. BLEEDING. 



Bleeding from superficial wounds, when only small veins are lacerated, 

 usually arrested by pressure, application of cold water, ice, refriger- 

 ants, or styptics. 



A bleeding artery, as in castration, stopped by hot iron, torsion, or 

 ligature ; sometimes by severing a partially divided vessel. 



Bleeding which cannot be got at arrested by cold or heat applied so as 

 to act reflexly ; by administration of such styptics as calcium chloride, 

 lead acetate and opium, sulphuric or tannic acids, ferric chloride, or 

 by ergotin hypodermically. Morphine diminishes blood pressure, and 

 thus favours formation of a firm clot. 



HEMORRHAGE, POST-PARTUM. 

 Rare in animals. 



Promote uterine contraction by removal of foetal membranes and intro- 

 duction of ice into uterus or rectum, or both. 



Contraction also produced by injection of water at about 110 Fahr. 



Injection into uterus of ferric chloride or ergot solution, or ergotin 

 hypodermically. 



Raise hind-quarters ; hot-water bag to dorsal region. 



Alcoholic stimulants with laudanum ward off collapse. Prevent strain- 

 ing by using a binder, and by giving anodynes. 



HEART, FATTY. 



Common in pampered dogs, and in horses that have suffered from 



serious or repeated attacks of reducing disease. 

 No over-exertion ; suitable dietary. 

 Iron salts, arsenic, strychnine. 



HEART, HYPERTROPHIED. 



Occurs in hard-worked aged horses, generally due to valvular disease. 

 Discover and mitigate producing conditions. 

 Aconite and digitalis in small doses if heart action violent. 

 Moderate, slow work, caffeine, nutritive diet. 



HEART, PALPITATION. 



Rest, perfect quiet, generous diet ; iron tonics where there are anaemic 



murmurs. 



Aconite, small doses, where cardiac action violent. 

 Digitalis or strophanthus where action weak and irregular. 

 Bromides sometimes useful where action irregular and fluttering. 

 Laxatives when connected with digestive derangement. 

 Belladonna where condition associated with strain or over-exertion. 

 Strychnine acts as heart tonic. 



HEART, VALVULAR DISEASE. 



Endocarditis, in horses, sometimes follows strangles, pneumonia, etc. ; 



in dogs rheumatism and distemper, etc. 

 Treatment only palliative. 



Over-exertion and excitement avoided ; nourishing diet. 

 Steady circulation by digitalis and alcoholic stimulants. 

 Purgatives, nitrites, arsenic, lower vascular tension. 



