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rennet to warm milk and straining. Also by broths, rice or barley water or 

 thin flour gruel. When milk is again given, it should be scalded and diluted 

 with an equal part of water. Give at onset castor oil (gi). Sucklings fed 

 every three hours, so as not to gorge. 



Cows giving milk containing over 4% per cent, fat may be unfit mothers. 

 After castor oil, give bismuth subnitrate (gr.xxx) three times daily. Brandy 

 for debility, and paregoric (5ii) if much pain and diarrhea. 

 Entropium. 



If only inturned eyelashes, they may be pulled out at intervals. The appli- 

 cation of a finely pointed stick of caustic potash in a line parallel and near 

 to ciliary border of under lid on the skin — once or more — may cause lid to 

 regain its normal shape. Otherwise remove elliptical piece of skin from eye- 

 lid and suture. At same time split margin of lid lengthwise, leaving all 

 eyelashes on outer flap, and lengthen palpebral fissure at outer canthus by 

 cutting with scissors. 

 Epilepsy. See Convulsions. 

 Epistaxis. Nose Bleed. 



Pack nostril with gauze soaked in hydrogen dioxide. Inject vinegar and 

 water (1-2). Insufflation of powdered alum or tannic acid. Internally, ergot, 

 hamamelis or turpentine. In purpura inject fresh horse serum; ergot, cal- 

 cium chloride, gelatin. Raise head and place ice-bag on forehead. Examine 

 for polypus, or causative general disease of brain, heart, lungs. 

 Erysipelas. 



In horses on head, enzootic. In sheep, attacks head. Swine, as mal rouge 

 or swine erysipelas. See hog cholera. 



Antistreptococcus serum in horse. Generous diet with alcohol, milk and 

 eggs. Isolate patient and after recovery disinfect premises. Well-ventilated 

 quarters. Antiseptic treatment of any wound present. Paint affected area 

 with pure phenol followed by alcohol. Cold compresses of saturated boric 

 acid solution. Heavy coat of collodion about lesion to limit spread, first 

 shaving hair. If pus forms, it must be liberated by incisions ; otherwise avoid 

 the use of knife. Quinine and tine, ferric chloride. 

 Erythema. 



In horses, "mud fever," or "scratches." 



Leave hair long on pasterns; do not wash legs after driving but wait until 

 dry and brush off dirt. Pink ointment, white lotion, calamine lotion, zinc 

 oxide and starch, lead acetate, boric acid, camphor, vaseline, hamamelis, tar. 

 When erythema results in a dermatitis, as in cracke?d heels of horses, stimu- 

 late with stick silver nitrate, or Peruvian balsam, and use astringents, as 

 pink ointment and white lotion. In general erythema, give purge and light 

 diet. 

 Esophagus. (Dilation and Obstruction. Inflammation and Paralysis.) 



In dilatation, feed frequently with small amounts of concentrated and 

 soft food. Resect esophageal pouch. 



In obstruction — If foreign body, give soft food. In dogs, pass a bristle 

 probang or coin catcher; in horses, inject apomorphine or use stomach tube 

 and stilet and inject water. Or expose gullet and ligate (temporarily) gullet 

 about stomach tube, above obstruction, and forcibly inject water. Esopha- 

 gotomy. Apomorphine subcutaneously in dogs. 



Inflammation of esophagus due to irritants — Give linseed gruel with 1 per 

 cent, boric acid, cold milk. Externally, Prlessnitz poultice. Later, rub ex- 

 ternally with equal parts oil of turpentine and sweet oil. 



In paralysis, apply fly blister, give strychnine internally, pass sound. 

 EsTRus Equi. See Bots. 



Estrus Larvae in Accessory Sinuses op Sheep. False Gid or Sturdy. 

 Gadfly Vertigo. 



Treatment is unsatisfactory. Tar on salt boxes or on nose of sheep to pre- 

 vent entrance of gadflies (see pix liquida). Impossible to insufflate or inject 

 agents to expel larvae. Early slaughter often most satisfactory. Trephine 



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