APPENDIX A 489 



860. Debility. 



Weakness. 

 Stimulating tonics, with easily digested food. 



861. Diabetes Insipidus. 



Great thirst ; passing large quantities of urine. 



Peculiar to the horse. 

 Iodine preparations. 

 Good, nutritious diet. 



862. DlARRHCEA. 



Scouring ; profuse discharge of fluid faeces. 

 Small doses of linseed oil and laudanum, and tincture of ginger or 



spirits. 

 Well-boiled gruel and milk, or linseed jelly, to drink. 



863. Dislocations. 



Bring bones into natural position ; splints and bandages. 



864. Distemper in Dogs. 



Febrile disease common to young dogs. 

 Keep warm ; give mild dose of castor oil and buckthorn. 

 Hyposulphite of soda and quinine. 



865. Dropsy (see Ascites). 



866. Dysentery. 



Fluid discharge of fasces mixed with blood. 

 Give carbolic acid or creosote, or oil of cloves in glycerine or linseed oil. 

 Well-boiled gruel and milk or linseed jelly to drink. 



867. Eclampsia. 



Reflex nervous affection about period of parturition. 

 Give chloral hydrate and bromide of potassium. 



868. Eczema. 



Skin affection. 

 Wash with izal, phenyle, Sanitas, or chinosol solutions. 



869. Elephantiasis in Horses. 



Chronic thickening of hind shanks. 

 Iron tonics, with diuretics ; cold-water bandages. 



870. Emphysema. 



Subcutaneous air swelling underneath the skin due to wounds. 

 Puncture with point of sharp knife, and apply pressure. 



871. Enteritis. 



Inflammation of the bowels. 

 Give linseed oil, laudanum, chloral hydrate, morphia hypodermics. 

 Hot applications to belly. 



872. Epilepsy. 



Fits in dogs. 

 Keep animal steady ; douche head well with cold water. 

 If from worms, give worm medicine. 



