708 THE DISEASES AND DISOEDEES OF THE OX. 



H^MOERHAGE. See Bleeding. 



H^MOERHOIDS OR PILES, 

 (i.) Draught — 



Extract of taraxacum, four fluid ounces. 

 Chloride of ammonium, one ounce. 

 Gentian, one ounce. 

 This draught may be given once daily in a pint of warm water. Treatment 

 should be commenced by the administration of sixteen ounces of sulphate of 

 sodium, and this cathartic drench may be repeated, when it may be necessary. 

 However, we must remember that in certain cases it may be necessary to use 

 surgical means of cure. 



(ii.) Local applications — 



(a.) Tincture of hamamelis. 

 (6.) Alum, one drachm. 



Water, two fluid ounces. 



HEEL, ULCERATION OF. 

 Ointment — 



Sulphate of copper, one drachm. 

 Lard, one ounce. 

 This ointment may be applied twice daily. Sometimes the granulations are^ 

 removed by cauterization. p 



HEMIPLEGIA AND PARAPLEGIA, 

 (a.) Acute. 



When an ox is paralysed as a result of a tumour or a fracture, the animal 

 should be killed, as there is but little possibility of recovery taking place. If,, 

 on the other hand, the paralysis be due to the presence of inflammatory growths, 

 the spine may be blistered by means of ointment of red iodide of mercury, and 

 tonics may be administered internally. 

 (6.) Chronic. 



Draught — 



Liquor strychninae hydrochloratis, four fluid drachms. 

 Spirit of chloroform, four fluid drachms. 

 Water, a sufficient quantity. 

 This draught may be given twice daily. 



HEPATITIS AND CONGESTION OF THE LIVER. 



(i.) Laxative draught — 



Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 

 Caraway seeds, one ounce. 

 This draught may be given in a pint of warm water, and, if it should be deemed 

 necessary to do so, it may be repeated on the following day. Otherwise one 

 drachm of calomel may be administered instead of the sulphate of sodium, and 

 followed up for several days by half-drachm doses of the same salt. The diet- 

 should be small in amount and of a laxative nature, 

 (ii.) Draught — 



Tincture of aconite (Gresswell's V. P.) forty minims. 

 Chloride of ammonium, six drachms. 

 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 

 Water, a sufficient quantity. 

 This draught may be given thrice daily, so long as any febrile symptoms are 

 displayed. Afterwards the aconite may be omitted. 



