788 INDEX OF DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



PURPURA H^EMORRHAGICA IN THE HORSE Continued. 



Inject intratracheally, Sviii. to 3 x ii- twice daily of a solution containing 

 one part iodine, six pot. iodide, 100 water (Dieckerhoff). 



Small repeated doses of calomel are indicated when there is danger of 

 intestinal infection. 



Scrupulous cleanliness and antiseptic dressings essential where portions 

 of skin ulcerating or sloughing ; methylene blue (2 per cent.) in spirit. 



Tracheotomy desirable where dyspnoea distressing. 



Pus IN FACIAL SINUSES. See NASAL GLEET. 



PYAEMIA. 



A disease caused by infection, and characterised by pyrexia of an 



intermittent type and formation of secondary abscesses. 

 Any wound whence infective products may arise must be laid open, 



cleansed, and rendered aseptic. 

 Injection of iodine tincture or dilute carbolic acid into inflamed glands 



sometimes checks destructive suppuration ; antistreptococcic serum 



subcutaneously. 



Sanitary conditions must be attended to. 

 The patient coaxed to take digestible, nutritive, concentrated food to 



sustain strength and ward off collapse ; milk, hay-tea, gelatin. 

 Moderate doses of alcoholic and etherous stimulants repeated every three 



or four hours ; quinine, salol, or salicylates. 



QUARTER EVIL. See BLACK QUARTER. 



QUITTOR. 



See also FISTULA. A sinuous wound of the horse's coronet. 

 Poultice to soften horn, thoroughly cleanse and disinfect, remove dead 



and detached tissue, provide dependent opening ; excision of necrosed 



cartilage often required. 

 Inject Villate's solution, or aqueous solution of corrosive sublimate, 1 to 



1000. Get perfect asepsis. 

 Envelop foot in antiseptic tow or jute, soaked in sublimate or other 



antiseptic solution, and carefully bandage. 

 In four days to a week remove dressing ; with knife and curette remove 



any necrosing or dead tissue, and dress as before. 

 Where foot strong no shoe needed ; but if weak or broken, bar shoe 



relieves pressure. 

 Stimulant embrocations to the coronet promote reparative action. 



RADIAL PARALYSIS or * DROPPED ELBOW.' 



Lameness with loss of power to extend the elbow- joint. Caused by 

 injury to the extensor muscles, the brachial plexus, or the nerve 

 supplying the affected muscles. Sometimes attributed to costal 

 fracture. Recovery protracted. 



Place horse in slings for a few days, foment extensor region, massage, 

 nerve stimulants, deep injection of sol. strychnine ; blisters ; setons, 

 exercise. 



RABIES. 



A specific febrile disease, occurring especially in the canine and feline 

 races, produced by a virus found in the central nervous system and 

 most organs arid secretions, and usually communicated by the bite 

 of a rabid dog or other animal. The incubation period ranges from 

 fifteen to sixty days in the dog, cat and horse, one to three months 

 in the ox, and fifteen to thirty days in the sheep. All warm- 

 blooded animals are susceptible. The disease is most certainly 

 and rapidly produced by inoculation, and when developed is 

 incurable. 



Under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, rabid dogs and animals 

 bitten by them are destroyed. 



