INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 771 



INFLAMMATION, ACUTE continued. 



Mustard or other stimulant embrocation applied to warm skin without 



blistering. 

 Ice or refrigerants applicable where inflammation limited or superficial, 



and in pharyngitis and laryngitis. 



Cathartics to open bowels and lower arterial tension and temperature. 

 When more acute symptoms relieved, salines in small repeated doses 



pot. nitrate and chlorate, magnesium sulphate, ammonium salts, sodium 



sulphite. 



Simple digestible diet ; diluents. 

 Cannabis indica, opium, belladonna ; other analgesics internally and 



topically. 

 Salicylic acid, salicylates, alkalies, and salines in rheumatic, and with 



belladonna in cystic inflammations. 



INFLAMMATION, CHRONIC. 



Secure removal of morbid products by keeping excreting channels, when 



not inflamed, in good working order by clothing, suitable diet, diluents, 



occasional laxatives, etc. 



Salines and antiseptics. See INFLAMMATION, ACUTE. 

 Where patient reduced give digestible nutritive food. 

 Bitters, acids, and alcohol promote appetite. 

 Alcohol and volatile oils most useful in worn town horses, or where 



blood-poisoning has occurred. 



Iodine and pot. iodide liquefy and remove exudate. 

 Counter-irritants frequently valuable mercury oleate, embrocations, 



mustard occasionally applied and washed off. 

 Opium, belladonna, other analgesics topically. 

 When joints or bones affected, mercuric iodide ointment, seton, or firing 



after subsidence of urgent symptoms. 



INFLUENZA. CATARRHAL EPIZOOTIC. HORSE DISTEMPER. PINK EYE. 



Infectious febrile epizootic of horse, ass and mule, characterised by 

 sudden onset, rapid development and marked prostration ; affects 

 primarily the respiratory tract, but also involves the nerve centres, 

 circulatory system, digestive mucous membrane, eyes, and sub- 

 cutaneous structures. Communicable chiefly directly, but also 

 indirectly ; very contagious. 



Chief Complications : pneumonia, enteritis, cerebral congestion, para- 

 plegia, ophthalmia, synovitis, laminitis, paralysis of penis. 

 Isolate patients, for their own comfort and safety of healthy subjects. 

 Disinfect premises daily. Provide special attendant for sick. 

 Comfortable box, temperature 60 to 65 Fahr. , pure air. 

 Rugs, hood, bandages to legs ; good hygienic conditions. 

 Enemata, linseed mashes, and, if need be, occasional laxative ; maintain 



bowels in regular state. Recovery may take place without medicines. 

 Liquor amm. acetatis, Epsom salt, and nitre allay slight pyrexia. 

 More acute fever treated by antifebrin, antipyrine, thallin, digitalis, 



camphor, alcohol, and ether ; hypodermic injections of salt solution ; 



influenza antitoxin may be tried. 

 Sodium salicylate, pot. iodide, and digitalis conjoined, advised by 



Trasbot. 

 Restrict to milk and mash diet, with a little green food, but when 



pyrexia abates give digestible concentrated nutritive food. 

 Flannels wrung out of hot water, mustard, or other embrocations to 



throat, relieve congestion of upper air-passages. 

 (Edema requires, with salines and antiseptics, early use of alcohol, ether, 



oil of turpentine, or ferric chloride solution. 

 Purpura combated by silver colloid, pot. iodide, chlorate, and quinine, 



alternated with ferric chloride and oil of turpentine. 

 Cases with lung complications are more difficult to treat. Liquor amm. 



