668 EPITOME OF MODERN TREATMENT 



painting with collodion, or 20 per cent, silver nitrate solution; injection of 

 2 per cent, carbolic solution. Puncture central opening with pure carbolic 

 acid on toothpicls: and dress with, carbolized vaseline; or creolin in Peruvian 

 balsam (1-10); poultices inadvisable as they spread infection, staphylococcic 

 vaccine, for recurrence, internal remedies of doubtful advantage; calcium 

 sulphide, H, gr. 20-30; D, gr, %-y2, thrice daily; or sodium sulphite, or 

 compressed yeast cake, 1 daily to dogs in pills. In anemia, bitters, iron 

 and arsenic. Paracentesis in severe cases; dress with Peruvian balsam and 

 creolin, as above, or iodoform, and avoid chafing of parts. 



BoTS IN Horses. 



Give carbon disulphide in capsules; 2 drams at hourly intervals for three 

 doses, followed in 24 hours by a pint of linseed oil. Laxative diet of 

 green fodder. Destroy larvae in feces in spring, then give bitters, iron and 

 arsenic for a fortnight. Sponge hair on which eggs are laid with kerosene 

 twice a week during the fly season. 



Broken Knees. Horses. 



For mere abrasion of skin, tie head up, to prevent the animal from lying 

 down for 2 or 3 days, and apply white lotion on a compress continuously. 

 When the skin is cut, shave or clip hair from surrounding skin, but use 

 no water. Wipe away dirt with sterile gauze or remove by means of 

 forceps and scissors. Paint wound and skin area with pure tincture of 

 iodine and use sterile silk sutures, dry, aseptic gauze and bandage. Apply 

 splint to leg, and tie the head up. If the wound suppurates, remove stitches, 

 apply wet dressing (2 per cent, lysol), covered with oil silk or rubber, 

 for few days, and then Peruvian balsam, aseptic dressing and bandage. 

 If the sheath of extensor tendon is opened and tendon exposed, or joint 

 opened, place the animal in slings (with splints on leg) and treat with 

 tincture of iodine and wet dressings (if suppuration occurs) as above 

 exactly as for the lesser injuries. Treatment is unavailing if the tendon 

 is much lacerated, the bones of the knee fractured or joint opened — except 

 in the case of invasion of the carpo-metacarpal articulation alone. 



Broken Wind, or Heaves in Horses. 



Avoid water before hard or fast work; give water in moderation between 

 meals; give mashes of bran and oats with carron oil; also small amount 

 of moistened hay. Arsenic for long periods; iron and nux vomica in 

 anemia and anorexia. If heart at fault, give tincture of digitalis and stro- 

 phanthus, 2 drams each, thrice daily. If bronchitis is a cause, see treatment 

 under that disease. If there Is true asthma, give spirit of chloroform. Si; 

 in 5ii of whiskey, and remedies advised for asthma in dogs. 



Bronchitis, Acute. 



In acute cases in horses, to shorten attack give full dose of Dover's pow- 

 der; also apply hot blanket and rubber sheet and dry blanket to chest, fre- 

 quently changed; rub mustard paste on legs and bandage. Give bran mash, 

 roots or grass and pint of linseed oil or- enema; furnish a well-ventilated 

 box stall. If there is fever, aconite; spirit of nitrous ether; and potassium 

 citrate; mixed in a drench, thrice daily. Employ inhalations of sodium 

 bicarbonate (3ss to Oi) to increase secretion; later, inhalations of oil of 

 turpentine (.oss to Oi) to lessen secretion. In dogs with dyspnea give 

 tablespoonful of syrup of ipecac to produce emesis; also, to increase secre- 

 tion, ipecac; with syrup of squill; or ammonium chloride or carbonate; in 

 chloroform water. With excessive secretion, prescribe internally oil of 

 turpentine; or terpin hydrate or terebin; or belladonna; with tincture of 

 nux vomica. If cough is constant and wearing, administer chloral hydrate; 

 or codeine; or heroin; or paregoric. In the horse, instead of expectorants, 

 use mustard, or stimulating liniments and Priessnitz poultice, to chest and 

 throat, and inhalations; if cough is persistent, potassium iodide. 



Bronchitis, Chronic. 



Treat as regards diet, fresh air, external applications and inhalations as 

 in acute form. In dry cough. Inhalations of sodium bicarbonate; with much 

 secretion, use turpentine by inhalation. To increase secretion, administer 



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