976 Scurvy. 



fresh air and sufficient exercise in the open. In the treatment 

 of scorbutic animals the best possible results are also obtained 

 by appropriate regulation of the diet. Hogs are best fed with 

 grain with which acid or bitter substances may be mixed, such 

 as acorns, horse chestnuts, calamus or gential root, powdered 

 oak bark, etc.; for dogs good fresh meat, bouillon and milk 

 are better adapted. In severe anemia it is proper to administer 

 preparations of iron (p. 851) and bitter remedies, to dogs also 

 wine and alcohol as well as the customary bitter tinctures. The 

 disease of the mouth demands local treatment. 



The sick acimals should be isolated and their stables dis- 

 infected. 



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 490. _ Hebrant, Ann., 1903. 597. — Hiedamgrotzky, S. B., 1878. 14. — Siedanigrotzky 

 & Hofmeister, ibid., 1878. 121. — Weber, D. t. W., 1909. 297. — Wolf, Der Skorbut 

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