INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 787 



PROSTATITIS. 



Inflammation of prostate gland, usually from gonorrho?a, cystitis, or 



calculi. Occurs in dogs. 



Hot fomentations. Catheter if needful to remove urine. 

 Alkalies and pot. iodide, belladonna and eucalyptus oil. 

 If abscess forms free incision in middle line of perineum. 



PRURITUS. 



Itching. A cutaneous neurosis occurring in horses and dogs. 

 When resulting from exposure to sun-heat, the animal is brought into 



the shade, douched with pot. bicarbonate, any specially irritable spots 



moistened with lotion of two parts glycerin, one each of sugar of lead 



and laudanum, and sixty water. 

 Belladonna in chloroform solution, alternated with alkaline washes, allays 



hyper-sensibility. 



Lotions of resorcin (5 per cent.) or chloral (1 per cent.) often beneficial. 

 Corrosive sublimate, thymol, or volatile oils, locally when itching 



depends upon parasites. 

 Cathartics, salines, careful dietary, when associated with gastric 



derangement. 

 Iron salts, oleaginous food, alkalies, arsenic, internally when patients 



impoverished. 



PSOAS MUSCLE STRAIN. Occurs in both horses and dogs. 



Rugs wrung out of hot water applied over loins and round abdomen. 



Anodyne enemata ; rest. 



Slings essential when both sides affected. 



PSORIASIS. 



A term applied to the scaly forms of eczema, such as mallenders in 

 horses, which see. 



PUMICED FOOT IN HORSES. 



Unhealthy horn with convexity and weakness of the sole, the result 



of laminitis. 



Bar shoe with wide web. 



Lessen concussion by tar dressing and leather sole. 

 Stimulate coronet. 



PUNCTURED FOOT. 



Injury from nail in shoeing or from gathered nail. 



Remove shoe, search foot, and thin hoof at puncture. May enlarge 

 wound, then disinfect and bandage antiseptically. 



PURPURA H^MORRHAGICA IN THE HORSE. 



Petechial fever. A fever characterised by circumscribed swellings 

 of the skin and hsemorrhagic petechise of the mucous membranes, 

 and their subareolar textures. Similar extravasations appear in 

 the substance of muscles, in the lungs, and other organs. Fre- 

 quently a sequel of exhausting disease, but etiology not fully 

 explained ; probably a toxaemia. 

 Remove to spacious airy quarters, clothe warmly. 



Pot. chlorate, three or four drachms two or three times daily, subse- 

 quently half doses ; usually given in drinking water. 

 Early injection of antistreptococcic serum may shorten duration of 



disease. 



Iron salts (sulphate, perchloride), quinine, oil of turpentine, and milk. 

 Digitalis and cinchona in electuary. 



Concentrated nourishment ; oatmeal gruel, milk and eggs, alcoholic 

 stimulants. Silver colloid, solution of adrenalin ; subcutaneous 

 injections of saline solution containing caffeine. 



Bland oil or vinegar diminishes skin tension and tendency to slough. 

 Limited swellings about head bathed with cold water and refrigerants. 



