INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 775 



LYMPHANGITIS IN HORSES continu ed. 



Give half dose physic and salines, foment limb, and administer turpentine 

 and alcoholic stimulants. 



Aid removal of swelling by exercise, and, subsequently, moderate work ; 

 smart friction of limb daily with oil ; diuretics and tonics ; iodine or 

 pot. iodide internally ; laxative diet and green food. 



Careful regulation of food, work, and rest prevents recurrence. 



LYMPHATICS, INFLAMED. 



Occurs specially in horses ; from pricks, other injuries, infective as in 



glanders. 



Remove if possible the original cause. Cooling diet, salines, pot. iodide. 

 Foment while heat and tenderness continue ; when tenderness abates, 

 apply friction, bandages, iodine ointment ; continue salines in drinking 

 water. 



MALADIE Du COIT. DOURINE. COVERING DISEASE. 



A specific equine disease affecting the male and female genitals, 

 characterised Jby catarrhal discharges, cedematous and phlegmonous 

 swellings and ulcerations. There supervenes a vaso-nervous 

 urticaria with spinal paralysis. The disease is communicable in 

 coition by affected horse or mare, and is caused by the Trypanosoma 

 equiperdum; the period of incubation varies from eight to sixty 

 days ; the mortality in the horse is greater than in the mare, 

 reaching 70 per cent. 

 Thorough daily irrigation of affected parts with corrosive sublimate 



one part, common salt ten, water 1000. 



Ulceration treated with strong solution silver nitrate or copper sulphate. 

 The horse cast and penis thoroughly examined, and treatment adapted 



to special lesions. 

 Concentrated nourishing food. 

 Reduced iron, iodides, atoxyl, arsenic, cacodylate of soda, quinine, 



mercuric chloride. 



Increasing doses of arsenic up to 20 grains per day ; atoxyl subcu- 

 taneously 2 to 4 grains, gradually increasing to 10 or 12 grains per 

 day; cacodylate of soda subcutaneously grains 10 to grains 40 in 

 20 per cent, solution, daily for five days, then discontinue for five 

 days and repeat as before. 



Months of patient treatment often elapse before cure effected. 

 In Prussia no affected stallion can be used in the stud until three years 



after recovery has been reported. 



A contagious exanthematous vesicular eruption of a comparatively benign 

 type affects the genital mucous membrane of dogs and cattle, occa- 

 sionally of horses, and less frequently of goats, sheep, and hogs. The 

 male suffers more than the female. The incubation stage three to six 

 days. 

 Astringent lotions ; ulceration treated as above. 



MAGGOTS FROM FLYBLOW. 



Turpentine and oil ; phenol solutions ; oil of tar. 



MALLENDERS and SALLENDERS. 



Chronic squamous eczema of the skin in the flexures of the horse's knee 



and hock. The chronic scaly condition preceded by an erythematous 



and vesicular stage. 



Soft soap and water, or carbonated alkali and vaseline remove scales. 

 Boro-glycerin or zinc oxide ointment relieves irritation. 

 Mercuric oxide, or iodine ointment abates thickening and infiltration. 

 Tar oils or decoction of oak bark in chronic cases. 

 Half dose physic, salines, laxative diet and regular exercise. 

 In debilitated subjects iron tonics and arsenic. 



