574 EPITOME OF MODERN TREATMENT 



infected. Paint affected parts in throat with mixture of Dobell's solution 

 and hydrogen dioxide with feather. Internally, give twice daily to fowl, 

 potassium chlorate, gr.y, and tincture of ferric chloride, Tn,v, in a little 

 glycerine and water. Diarrhea relieved by 10-15TT1, of 2 per cent, tannin 

 solution, for fowl. Open distended sinuses under eye. Wash eyes with boric 

 solution (2 per cent.) Give bacterins. 



Croup in Calves, Lambs and Pigs. Isolate, disinfect premises. Tincture 

 ferric chloride and potassium chlorate, of each one-half dram thrice daily in 

 glycerin and water. Cleanse nose with normal salt solution, and throat with 

 saturated boric acid solution with syringe and swab. Whiskey and milk and 

 eggs; green food and Carlsbad salts. 



Curb. 



Fomentations, cold irrigation, Priessnitz poultices, cantharidal blistering 

 and actual cautery. Rest and high-heeled shoe. 



Cow Pox. See Variola. 

 Cystitis, Acute and Chronic. 



Diet: — Large animals, barley water and mashes; small animals, milk. 

 Rest important. 



In acute form, ice water or hot enemata. Purge with salts or linseed oil, 

 large patients; with castor oil in dogs; morphine and extract of belladonna 

 in suppository to dogs (each gr.%-%). Large animals, spirit of nitrous 

 ether, laudanum (each §0' ™^y ^^ given together every 4 hours, sodium 

 bicarbonate, potassium citrate or acetate. When acute symptoms pass, pre- 

 scribe one of the following: hexamethylenamine, sodium benzoate with boric 

 acid. If urine is alkaline, use acid; when cystitis is persistent employ colon, 

 or mixed bacterin containing the B. coli communis. 



In chronic form, buchu; but bladder irrigation then most valuable — silver 

 nitrate. (1-1,000), boric acid or borax (1-2 per cent.), creolin (1-200). 



Other remedies are: — Hyoscyamus, oil of juniper, acacia, cantharides, lysol, 

 balsam of Tolu and Peru, salol, turpentine, eucalyptol, thymol, myrrh. 

 Debility. 



Nourishing diet — milk, eggs, linseed and cotton seed meal. Small animals 

 — bovinine, broths, beef juice, cream; olive oil, cod liver oil, alcohol and 

 bitters in convalescence, as quinine, strychnine, gentian, calumba, iron and 

 arsenic in anemia. 



To stimulate appetite and digestion, with bitters in large animals: ginger, 

 cardamon and coriander, fennel and funugreek. 



In the young and in nervous debility: calcium phosphate, glycerophos- 

 phates and phosphorus. 

 Decubitus. Bed Sores. 



Prevention: Change position often or use slings; sufficient beddnig and 

 cleanliness. Alcohol with tannic acid (5 per cent.) to harden sldn 



Treatment: Nitrate of silver (gr.xx to §i) painted on skin to abort, or on 

 granulating surface of sores. Zinc oxide ointment, aristol, chlorinated lime. 

 Delirium. 



In acute inflammations and injuries of head, ice to poll, venesection, 

 purges, as for cerebritis. With exhaustive diseases — alcohol, strychnine. 

 Sedatives, if severe, as morphine; chloral, bromides. 

 Dentition' Fever. 



In horses give soft, laxative food of mashes, green fodder with carron oil. 

 Lance gums, if swollen, and extract milk teeth which interfere with eruption 

 of permanent teeth. 



In dogs, when dentition delayed, give syrup of calcium lactophosphate. 

 Depraved Appetite. Pica. Licking Habit. 



Cattle — Remove primary digestive disorder; generous feeding with plenty 

 of salt; outdoor existence. Apomorphine, gr.ii hypodermaticaUy, once a week 

 for 3 injections. 



Calves and Lambs— Calves segregated; lambs isolated when not sucking; 

 apomorphine (gr.%) subcutaneously. 



Digitized by Microsoft® 



