772 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



INFLUENZA. CATARRHAL EPIZOOTIC. HORSE DISTEMPER. PINK EYE con- 

 tinued. 



acetatis, other stimulating expectorants, with pot. nitrate or chlorate 



and camphor, relieve dyspnoea ; oxygen inhalations. 

 Hot fomentations to chest ; mustard applied, but washed off in fifteen 



to twenty minutes ; reapplied if needful ; influenza antitoxin intra- 

 venously. 

 Cardiac asthenia combated by alcohol or ether given early, in moderate 



doses, every three hours, and conjoined with camphor and digitalis, 



or with subcutaneous injections of caffeine or camphorated oil. 

 Diuretics, alkalies, and pilocarpine prescribed by Friedberger. 

 When lung secretions are foetid, antiseptics, phenols, per os t or 



inhaled ; benzoates. 

 Gastro-intestinal complications treated in earlier stages by a few doses 



of grey powder or calomel, conjoined with laxatives. 

 In later stages, and with hepatic symptoms, by nitro-hydrochloric acid, 



sodium salicylate, or hyposulphite. 

 Abdominal pain relieved by chloral and cannabis indica internally, or 



by morphine hypodermically. 

 Rheumatic symptoms treated with salicylates, oil of turpentine, diuretic 



doses of digitalis and salines, with stimulation of affected muscles and 



joints. 

 When strength reduced, give milk, eggs, beef tea, and frequent alcoholic 



stimulants. 

 INTUSSUSCEPTION. 



Invagination of a portion of intestine. 

 No medicinal treatment of much avail. Restrict to a limited amount of 



soft food. 

 Avoid cathartics. 



Opium and cannabis indica allay spasm and pain. 

 In the horse long enema tube may be tried. 



Failing other means, open abdomen and endeavour to rectify the dis- 

 placement, or practise excision. 

 IRITIS. 



Inflammation of the iris. Occurs in specific ophthalmia in horse, 



which see. 



Dark box, cathartics, salines : continuous cold irrigation or ice-bag. 

 Solution of atropine, alternated with eserine, prevent adhesions. 

 Cannabis indica, opium, and other anodynes internally and locally. 

 JAUNDICE. 



Icterus. Skin discoloration from bile pigments. 1. Catarrhal, 



affecting the bile ducts. 2. Retention or reabsorption of bile. 



3. Hepatic, from congestion, inflammation, or degeneration of liver. 



Laxatives clear away excess of bile lodged in the bile tubes or duodenum. 



Simple digestible food beneficially diminishes formation of bile. 



Massage of liver region, mustard embrocations, and faradisation relieve 



biliary torpidity and retention ; subcutaneous injections of sterilised 



salt solution. 



Amm. chloride arid salines in catarrhal cases. 

 Nitro-hydrochloric acid ; where patient weak conjoin quinine. 

 Little can be done for cirrhosis or fatty degeneration. 

 JOHNE'S DISEASE. 



A disease of cattle caused by microbes closely resembling tubercle 

 bacilli. The lesions occur in the small intestine and mesenteric 

 glands. Usually fatal. 

 KENNEL LAMENESS. See RHEUMATISM. 

 KBRATOMA and KERAPHYLLOCELE. 



Horn tumour, growing from sole or horny laminae. 

 Relieve pressure by rasping and poulticing. Excise tumour, dress 



wound antiseptically. Recurrence frequent. 



