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Blisters are sometimes of use in the advanced stages of the 

 disease, in stimulating resolution and reabsorption , but hot or 

 cold applications are preferable in the early acute stages. 



lyaparotomy in cases due to rupture of stomach or bowel, or of 

 extensive .'perforation, has not been attempted in solipeds, and it 

 could hardly be expected to succeed, yet in such cases, which are 

 otherwise inevitably fatal, any measure giving even a remote 

 hope of success is allowable. 



When tympany sets in it may be met by using a fine cannula 

 and trochar, and as soon as the gas has escaped, antiseptics like 

 chloral hydrate, salicylate of soda, salicylic acid, or glycerine, 

 can be injected into the fermenting mass by attaching a caouchouc 

 tube and funnel to the cannula. 



CHRONIC PERITONITIS IN SOLIPEDS. 



Secondary : after acute, or with disease of liver, spleen, kidney, rheuma- 

 tism, melanosis, lymphadenoma, epithelioma, carcinoma, or sarcoma. 

 Gastric ulcer, infected punctures. Symptoms : poor health, tender abdo- 

 men, irregular bowels, slight colic, tense, fluctuating belly, pallid "mucosae, 

 dropsy of sheath, limbs, etc., slight fever. Treatment : remove primary 

 disease : saline laxatives, diuretics, drainage, antiseptic irrigation (boric 

 acid, etc.), abdominal bandage, tonics, derivatives. 



Causes. Chronic peritonitis is always a secondary disease, 

 succeeding the acute, or dependent on some other affection of the 

 abdominal organs, as chronic congestion of the liver, or spleen, 

 Bright's disea.se, rheumatism, melanosis, lymphadenoma, epithe- 

 lioma, carcinoma, or sarcoma. Tuberculosis and actinomycosis, 

 so common in cattle, are rare in solipeds. Chronic ulcers of 

 stomach or bowels and injuries and infectionu from punctures are 

 exceptional causes. 



Symptoms. The manifestations of the disease are indefinite, 

 the acute form may have subisided so that the patient is supposed 

 to have completely recovered, a moderate appetite and a certain 

 capacity for work may be present, yet he is ea,sily fatigued, there 

 is some tenderue.ss of the abdomen to pressure, some irregularity 

 of the bowels — constipation and diarrhoea alternating — and 



