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Abscess, Cold. 



Open with actual cautery or knife j inject antiseptics, as carbolic acid in 

 glycerin; Peruvian balsam. Dress with powder, equal parts of tannic acid, 

 boric acid, iodoform and charcoal. 



AcARiASis. See Mange. 



Acne. 



Prevent by avoiding rough harness and by constant cleansing with sulphur 

 soap after removal of harness. Abort by applying pure carbolic acid. When 

 acute, hot fomentations with borax, 3ii-0i; dry sulphur, sulphur ointment 

 Fowler's solution in chronic cases. Vaccine of acne bacilli and staphylococci 

 in obstinate cases. 



Actinomycosis. 



Chiefly in young cattle, affecting the jaw and tongue, soft parts of head, 

 pharynx, larynx, skin and internal organs. Excise, curette, chisel. Apply 

 tincture or compound solution of iodine to wound, or iodoform. Large doses 

 of potassium iodide internally; good food and tonics. 



After-Pains. 



Remove membranes and clots; opium, morphine. If fever and foul vag- 

 inal discharge are present, see Puerperal Fever. 



Aged Animals, destruction of. 



Strychnine, bullet, chloroform, prussic acid. 



Alopecia (Baldness). 



If general, due to debility, give good food, . iron, arsenic, bitters ; and 

 apply to skin tinct. cantharis, 5 i; lin- saponis, 5 viii. With scaling, use 

 sulphur ointment, and add later to it Peruvian balsam; also groom very 

 thoroughly. In alopecia areata, use ung. chrysarobini ; or equal parts alcohol 

 and tine, iodi; or creolin and alcohol (1-10-20); or balsam of Peru and 

 alcohol (1-10). 



Amaurosis. 



Treatment depends on cause. If owing to debility, loss of blood, trauma 

 or quinine poisoning, give strychnine internally; and apply fly blister about 

 temples. In amaurosis due to cerebral disease (concussion, hydatids, par- 

 turient apoplexy), to renal disorder, convulsions, lead poisoning, etc., 

 treatment depends upon the causative factor. 



Ammenohrhea. See Sterility. 



Anemia. 



Remove primary cause. Full diet; fresh air and exercise; comfortable 

 housing; sodium chloride and HCl; iron, arsenic, quinine, gentian, strych- 

 nine, eupric sulphate. Cod liver oil, myrrh. Clip horses with thick coats. 

 In pernicious form, Fowler's solution in increasing doses till the maximum 

 dose is reached; H., S ii twice daily; D., TTl xxx thrice daily. 



Anemia, Infectious, of Horses, Asses and Mules. 



Treatment is purely symptomatic and is not very successful. Give anti- 

 pyretics for fever; acetanilid 3ii and quinine sulph. gr.iO t.i.d. Sodium 

 cacodylate, gr. xxx every other day subcutaneously, or six per cent, phenol 

 solution with enough potassium dichromate to make dark, straw color. Dose: 

 3 i t.i.d. Also blood transfusion successful. When fever subsides give 

 pulv. ferri sulph. 3ii, acid arsenosi gr.2, quin sulph. gr.xxx, pulv nucis vom. 

 31, pulv. gent. §i; M. et f. pulv. I; give one such t.i.d. Give laxative food and 

 daily enemata of cold water to excite peristalsis and reduce fever. 



Aneurism. 



Radical cure by ligation of aneurism on either side of sac and excision 

 of sac. When impossible, ligate proximal side. Employ Matas' operation, 

 in which temporary ligation on either side of sac and obliteration of orifices 

 and sac with layers of buried chromic gut sutures are done and continuity 



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