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Convulsions, Eclampsia, Epilepsy. 



Remove cause when possible by use of cathartics or emetics In indigestion 

 and overloaded stomach; by incising gums in teething; by anthelmintics in 

 worms. In attack, owner may immerse puppy in warm bath; the veteri- 

 narian should give chloroform inhalation, and afterwards .administer fluid- 

 extract ipecac, 111,30, and enema. To prevent further attacks in dogs or 

 horses, administer chloral with sodium bromide, thrice daily in water. When 

 fits are recurrent, epilepsy is to be suspected. In this case, give sodium bro- 

 mide thrice daily for considerable time; and tincture of belladonna or chloral, 

 if bromides ineffectual. Or acetanilid with monobromated camphor may be 

 prescribed in capsules thrice daily for dogs. . In puerperal eclampsia of 

 bitches, inject morphine (gr.ss-i) subcutaneously, or employ chloroform in- 

 halation, and an enema of chloral in boiled starch solution. 



Corneal Opacities. 



When recent, apply yeUow oxide of mercury ointment to upper lid once 

 daily (gr.i-ii to 31), or calomel. After a year, opacity becomes permanent; 

 do iridectomy under clear area in cornea. 



Corneal Ulcer. 



Yellow oxide of mercury, as for opacities; calomel, as for opacities; or 

 touch ulcer with silver nitrate solution (2-4 per cent.) by means of pointed 

 camel's hair brush; atropine during treatment. Instil 2 per cent, solution 

 of fluorescein to stain and locate ulcer. In suppurating keratitis, touch yel- 

 low infiltrated area of ulcer with point of knitting needle heated cherry red, 

 after using cocaine. 



Corns in Foot op Horse. 



Remove shoe and cut away discolored area to remove pressure or exuda- 

 tion under sole; disinfect with pure phenol or tincture of iodine; flaxseed 

 poultices if hiuch lameness; bar or wide-web shoe with rubber or leather. 

 Coryza, in Horses. 



Fresh air, outdoors in suitable weather; moderate covering, legs bandaged 

 and mustard paste rubbed on them in stable. Diet: — roots, bran mashes with 

 few ounces of linseed oil. Fluidextract belladonna (3ss every 2 hours, first 

 day or two). Inhalations, compound tincture benzoin. Other remedies are: — 

 Spirit of nitrous ether„ aconite, Dover's powder, opium, cocaine, adrenalin, 

 menthol, quinine, arsenic, bismuth. 

 Cough. 



Well-ventilated quarters, warm clothing; inhalations, turpentine stupes, 

 mustard to throat and chest, Priessnitz poultice. From catarrh in upper air- 

 passages, see Coryza, Pharyngitis, Laryngitis. Bronchial Cough. See 

 Bronchitis. 



Dry cough — Ammonium chloride and carbonate, ipecac, Dover's powder, 

 sodium bicarbonate or potassium citrate. With excessive secretion — oil of 

 turpentine; terpin hydrate or terebin, tar, belladonna, balsam of Tolu, 

 creosote, internally or by inhalation. 



Constant, harassing' or reflex cough — Opium, heroin, chloral, chloroform, 

 phenacetin, bromides, belladonna, wild cherry, prussic acid, cannabis indica, 

 gelsemium, camphor. 

 Verminous cough. See Hoose. 

 Cough, Chronic, of Horses. See Bronchitis, Chronic and Broken Wind. 



Laryngitis. 

 Cracks or Fissures. See Fissures. 

 Cramps. 



Atropine, belladonna. 

 Crib Biting. See Wind-Sucking. 

 Croup, or Roup. Pseudo-Membranous Croup. "Diphtheria." 



True diphtheria is rarely seen in cats and dogs ( Klebs-Loeffler bacillus). 

 Croup common in fowl. Isolate sick and newly-bought fowl. Infected 

 premises disinfected and whitewashed. Dead fowl burned, utensils dis- 



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