INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 769 



HEART, VALVULAR DISEASE continued. 



Relieve dropsy by caffeine, pilocarpine, and diuretics. 

 Combat dyspnoea and palpitation by morphine hypodermically, and pot. 

 bromide or arsenic by mouth. 



HEPATITIS. 



Inflammation of the liver, exceedingly rare ; congestion more frequent. 

 Cathartic, salines, amm. chloride ; aconite if febrile symptoms prominent. 

 Ipecacuanha valuable, especially in dogs. 

 Fomentation and stimulation over region of liver. 

 Digestible, laxative diet ; suitable exercise when acute symptoms 



relieved. 



Nitro-hydrochloric acid in chronic cases. 

 Salines and careful dietary safer than more active remedies when 



hepatic inflammation or congestion associated with epizootic or other 



debilitating disease. 

 Chronic cases usually terminating in cirrhosis or amyloid degeneration. 



Treatment only palliative. 



HERNIA. 



Protrusion of organ from natural cavity. 

 Umbilical. Exomphalos, chiefly occurs in young animals. 

 Patient, after fasting for several hours, must be cast, placed on back, 



and protruding portion of intestine returned. 

 Retained in position by sutures, clamps of wood or iron, skewers, or 



elastic ligature. 

 Cantharides blister, or other irritant, applied to adjacent skin, causes 



swelling, and in slighter cases occludes opening. 

 Ventral. Protrusion of bowel or omentum through rupture in abdominal 



wall, usually through staking or thrust of a horn. 

 Unless large, or liable to strangulation, seldom causes inconvenience. 

 Radical cure effected by returning viscus, and cutting down and 



suturing opening in abdominal walls. 

 Inguinal and Scrotal. Usually occurring in entire horse, sometimes in 



gelding. Perineal in pig and dog ; femoral in bitch. 

 Cast, and return the bowel by taxis, and if need be by application of 



ice or refrigerants. 



If this fail, enlarge constricting ring. 

 Covered castration operation in entire animal. Ligation of cord, 



clamp, or sutures. 



HOOSE IN CALVES AND LAMBS caused by Strongyles. See WORMS. 



HOVEN AND GASTRIC IMPACTION IN CATTLE OR SHEEP. 

 When rumen distended, chiefly with gas 

 Full dose diluted ammonia, ether, turpentine, alcohol, or sol. 



barium chloride. 



Exercise with friction to abdomen hastens expulsion of gas. 

 Introduction of hollow probang allows escape of gas when food in 



stomach limited in amount. 

 In serious cases puncture rumen through left flank with trocar and 



canula, or with butcher's, or other large knife. 

 Administer cathartic to remove any irritant, and feed for several days 



on sloppy, digestible food. 

 When rumen distended with food 

 A smart purge conjoined with an active stimulant ; but repeated 



purgatives are injurious ; pilocarpine subcutaneously. 

 Solid food interdicted ; slops, treacle-water, and ginger, freely given. 

 Water containing salines offered at short intervals. 

 Nux-vomica, emetine and veratrine useful when viscus in atonic state. 

 When distension and distress increase, there should be no delay in 



emptying the engorged stomach by rumenotomy. 



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