778 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



MANGE, FOLLICULAR continued. 



rides ointment, and rub the head and remaining portions with balsam 

 of Peru. Repeat daily for a week, applying the cantharides to fresh 

 spots. After a few days' rest resume (Brusasco). 



MEGRIMS. 



Vertigo ; Giddiness ; occurring in horses ; pathology undetermined. 

 Remove any pressure interfering with cerebral circulation. 

 Dash cold water over head and neck. 

 Walking exercise ; hand-rubbing of body and legs ; pot. iodide to reduce 



blood-pressure. 



Occasional dose of physic sometimes useful. 

 Horses subject to megrims should be driven carefully. 



MELANOSIS. 



Most frequent in grey horses. A pigmented Sarcoma, usually localised 



where pigment already exists. 



When growth distinctly denned, remove by knife or caustic. 

 Dress with antiseptics. Recurrence with increased activity of growth 

 frequent after operation. 



MENINGITIS. 



Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord. The 

 intensity of the attack and the parts specially affected determine 

 excitement or paralysis of the central nervous system. Occurs in 

 all veterinary patients ; frequent and fatal in cattle and sheep, in 

 which often associated with gastric derangement. 

 Where cerebral excitement prominent, dark box, active cathartic ; 



blood-letting in robust subjects ; ice to head. See PHBENITIS. 

 Cathartics, physostigmine, and pilocarpine (Friedberger). 

 When functional activity of cord exalted hot or cold compresses to 



spine ; laxatives, bromides, or chloral. 

 Remove retained contents of bladder or rectum. 

 When acute symptoms relieved, pot. iodide and salines. 

 Chronic paresis treated by strychnine, and embrocations to poll or spine. 

 Epizootic form in horses cerebro- spinal meningitis, which see. 

 Sheep suffer from chronic spinal paralysis, characterised by hypersesthesia 

 and convulsive movements, general muscular feebleness, paresis of the 

 hind-quarters, and progressive wasting ; no definite pathological 

 lesions ; popularly known as Louping-ill, described by Friedberger as 

 Lumbar prurigo, by Trasbot as Maladie des trotteurs. 

 Treatment unsatisfactory. Remove affected animals from breeding flock. 

 Feed young stock liberally. 

 Improve poor pastures on which disease occurs. 



METRITIS. METRO-PERITONITIS. 



Inflammation, usually septic, affecting the uterus and peritoneal 

 membrane. Occurs in all females, usually about three days after 

 difficult parturition. Liable to spread by contagion. 

 Syphon or syringe uterus and vagina with 1 per cent, creolin, 1 per 



1000 corrosive sublimate solution, hydrogen peroxide one part in 



five of boiled water, or two per cent solution lysoform. 

 Remove foetal membranes and blood clots ; render aseptic any 



wounds. 

 Afterwards, where walls of uterus dilated or flaccid, inject solution of 



ergot, belladonna tincture or astringent antiseptic. 

 To facilitate irrigation employ clean horse catheter. See INTRA-UTERINE 



INJECTIONS. 

 Woollen cloth or lint wrung out of hot water applied over loins and 



round abdomen relieves spasms and pain. 

 As in other septic cases, creolin, ether, phenols, naphthol, or sulphites 



are given internally. 



