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blood in the anterior chamber of the eye, and an extravasation of the 

 epiploon. Animals generally die of exhaustion, and post-mortem may 

 show extensive hemorrhage of the intestinal tract, pneumonia and 

 pyaemia. 



Treatment. — Local treatment of the mouth with astringents, lis- 

 terine, permanganate of potash, regulation of diet. Where animals like 

 packs of hounds have been fed on nothing but meat, a combination with 

 vegetables seems to be advantageous; the regular diet of cooked meat 

 should have greens such as spinach or the ordinary dandelion, root and 

 leaves cooked with it. General tonics, such as gentian or nux vomica, 

 and when there is general hemorrhage the internal administration of 

 hemostatics is useful. 



Priessnitz's Bandage or Compress. 



This compress is mentioned a number of times in the work, and as 

 it has special advantages in the treatment of dogs, the translator will 

 attempt to describe it, as the author has not done so, probably due to the 

 fact that it is so very well known in German therapeutics that it needed 

 no explanation, but to English-speaking veterinarians this is the reverse. 



The object of the compress or bandage is to keep up a continual 

 heat, either dry or moist, to certain parts of the animal's body. We 

 first apply against the part afTected a piece of absorbent cotton, thick 

 W'ool, or dry felt; or if moist heat is recfuired, it is soaked in warm water 

 or a medicated solution and wrung out to remove the excess of fluid; 

 this is then held in position by a covering of some light material — a wide 

 bandage of cheese-cloth is the best — and next a layer of oiled silk or 

 rubber cloth (the object of this is to retain the heat and in case of a wet 

 compress, the moisture), and finally over this is placed a compress or 

 bandage of flannel. This last is to prevent loss of heat by radiation. 

 Sometimes the inner layer of cheese-cloth is omitted, or else it is put on 

 the outside of all. 



The above procedure may seem to the hurried practitioner a rather 

 long and unnecessary method, but after one has tried it and found the 

 great advantages it has in the retention of heat, especially in diseases of 

 the lungs, in hastening the maturing of an abscess, or in the lessening of 

 a tumefaction by the constant and direct application of heat and moisture, 

 he will realize its benefits. 



