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internally sodium iodide, ammonium chloride; and carbonate. To lessen 

 secretion, oil of turpentine; or creosote. When there is heart wealcness, 

 digitalis or strychnine. In young or debilitated, fat in some form, as cream, 

 olive oil; or cod liver oil; housing must be dry, warm, and well-ventilated. 

 Other remedies include the following: — Nitrites, strophanthus, quinine, 

 arsenic, linseed tea, tar, benzoin, eucalyptol, resin, balsam of Peru, balsam 

 of Tolu, myrrh, asafetida, ammoniacum, buchu, compound spirit of juniper, 

 camphor, sulphur, sulphurous anhydride, alum, tannic acid, eserine, 

 cantharides. 



Bronchitis, Verminous. See Hoose. 



Bronchocele, Thyroid Enlargement in Dogs. Goitre. 



Paint tumor repeatedly with tincture of iodine and give potassium iodide 

 (gr. ii to v) internally for a month. If still persists, inject aseptically and 

 slowly into substance of gland one dram of 5 per cent, phenol solution. 

 Repeat if necessary at intervals of 10 days. Surgery, partial resection, 

 proves most successful, but goitre usually disappeai-s with drug treatment 

 in young animals. • 



Bruises. 



At the onset use: — Priessnitz poultice; hot fomentations; or antiphlo- 

 gistine or refrigerants; or astringents, as compresses, wet with white lotion, 

 and bandaging. Or alcohol; or arnica; or hamamelis, may be used. Ano- 

 dynes, as laudanum, are indicated. To aid resolution, massage with stimu- 

 lating liniments; with camphor liniment; with soap liniment; with ichthyol; 

 with olive oil. 



Burns. 



In burns of 1st degree: — Dichloramine T in oil; or flour, starch, saleratus; 

 dusted over burn. In burns of 2nd degree: — Soak sterile gauze in 1 per cent, 

 solution of picric acid, cover with absorbent cotton and bandage; reapply 

 in 3 days and 2nd dressing may remain a week; or, after cleansing burn, 

 opening blebs and drying the surface by fanning, apply liquid paraffine 

 (melts at 122° F., pliable at 82.4° F.) with brush, lay over with layer of 

 absorbent cotton and apply another layer of paraffine. Change every 24 

 hours and cleanse with dry, sterile gauze; also boric acid in 10 per cent, 

 ointment (vaseline) is harmless and efficient. In 3rd degree: — Wet dress- 

 ings of saturated boric acid solution, covered with oil silk, or equal parts 

 of Peruvian balsam and castor oil ; remove dead tissue and treat as ordi- ' 

 nary wound. In shock, stimulate with alcohol, strychnine and opium. Other 

 agents of service include: — Tine, iodine, orthoform, aristol, boroglyceride, 

 carbolic acid, iodoform, salicylic acid, chalk, menthol, oil of turpentine, 

 chlorinated lime, chlorinated soda. 



Bursitis (inflammation of the bursee of the knee^ elbow, hock, stifle, fet- 

 lock, cannon bone, withers and poll). 



In acute cases — Cold compresses and pressure by use of flannel bandages; 

 cold irrigations, or ice poultices; compresses wet with white lotion. 



In chronic conditions (hygroma). — Aspiration and injection of iodine or 

 carbolic acid; excision, also blisters, red mercuric iodide or cantharides. See 

 Oapped Elbow, Hock, Knee. 



Calculi, Biliary. See Gall Stones. 

 Calculi, Intestinal. See Colic. 



Removal by high enemata, by hand in rectum or abdominal section. Pain 

 relieved by morphine and atropine under the skin. Obstruction by sand 

 may be overcome by cathartics. 

 Calculi, Renal and Vesical. 



No medical treatment will dissolve or remove stone from the urinary 

 tract although such may naturally escape. The medical treatment is there- 

 fore wholly prophylactic. 



In cattle and sheep — Give sodium bicarbonate on the food, and allow an 

 abundance of water; feeding sheep should be compelled to move thrice daily 



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