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strength. As before stated, this plan of disinfecting is only to hn 

 used when the house is empty. (See Sulphurous Acid Gas in 

 Part II.) 



Distemper. — (See Influenza and Strangles.) 



Distemper, Choking. — (See Typhosus.) 



Diuretics. — A name given to those medicines which cause an 

 increased secretion from the kidneys. Example, chlorate and 

 nitrate of potassa, the Spanish fly, and eupurpurin. (.See Medi- 

 cines.) 



Dropsies. — Every school-boy is familiar with the term dropsy, 

 which means an unnatural accumulation of water in the cavities 

 of the body, chest, heart-case, belly, breast, sheath, and cellular 

 tissue of the legs. (See Debility.) 



1. When water is in the chest it is called Hydrothorax. This 

 is the immediate cause of death, in pleurisy in the horse, and 

 pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, the animal dying by sufi'ocation or as- 

 phyxia. 



2. When in the belly, it is called Ascites. 



8. When in the cellular tissue, and confined to a portion only 

 of the body, as the leg or sheath, it is called (Edema ; but if the 

 swellings are over difierent portions of the body, it is called Ana- 

 sarca. 



4. When in the heart-case or pericardium, it is called Dropsy 

 OF THE Heart. 



Causes. Treatment«of diseases by starvation, or low diet, bleed- 

 ing, blistering, and physicking. Injury to a part will be followed 

 by watery swellings in the neighboring parts. 



Treatment. Blood-making food and medicines are imperatively 

 demanded. Corn meal mixed with bran and cut hay. Grass, if 

 it can be had. A bottle of strong beef tea or soup, given daily, 

 will be of great use. Give the following medicine three times a 

 day, either mixed in the food or poured down the mouth with a 

 bottle : Powdered sulphate of iron, one drachm ; powdered gentian 

 root, two drachms ; Spanish fly, two grains. Mix. Friction over 

 the swelling will be of use. Sometimes it will be necessary to 

 make slight incisions or cuts through the skin to let out the im- 

 prisoned fluid. Do not blister such swelling, as it is apt to ])ro- 

 duce ragged, running sores, diflQcuIt/ to heal, and leaving a blemish- 



