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either side of median line between eyes and remove with forceps and irriga- 

 tion (2 per cent, lysol), or by injection of a little benzine and water (Moussu). 



Exostoses. 



In early stages treat as for Periostitis, which see. For later outgrowth 

 of bone, iodine or cantharides. Red mercuric iodide, point firing; rest. 



Fainting. See Syncope. 



False Quarter. 



Blister coronet; cantharis. Treat wound in coronary band which causes 

 defect in wall of hoof. Apply bar shoe. Cut dead horn away. Keep dirt 

 out of fissure by filling it with gutta percha and ammoniacum. 



Farcy. See Glanders. 



Favus, in Cats, Dogs, Horses, Cattle, Fowl. 



Remove crusts by soaking in sweet oil and washing in green soap and 

 water. Sulphur ointment, or 5-10 per cent, ointments of the following: 

 Naphthol, resorcin, thymol, tar, or creolin and salicylic acid. Sulphur and 

 salicylic acid least toxic. Or apply tine, of iodine and goose grease (1-8). 



Fever. 



Cold air and moderate covering, and bandaging of limbs (horses). Cold 

 applications. Cold drinks, cold enemata. Spirit of nitrous ether with 

 aconite and potassium citrate, especially in catarrhal conditions. With 

 intestinal autointoxication, calomel, magnesium sulphate, castor oil. 



In hyperpyrexia, phenacetin, acetanilid, antipyrin. Diet. In most infec- 

 tions, as septicemia, and in continued low fevers : quinine, alcohol, strychnine. 



In convalescence, see Convalescence. 



Fissure. 



Of Anus — Expose with speculum and touch with pure phenol on a small 

 swab. Iodoform in carbolized vaseline (1-8), applied daily after enema. 

 Keep bowels loose with salts or oil. Orthoform, belladonna. 



Of teats — -Udder and teats thoroughly washed with soap and water and 

 saturated boric acid solution. Milk removed with boiled milking tube. Touch 

 fissure with solid silver nitrate, and coat with compound tincture of benzoin 

 frequently, and keep covered with boric acid in vaseline (10 per cent.). Also 

 Peru balsam or tannin. 



Fistula. 



Surgery should rpceive first consideration. 



The following ointment has proved of value. The ointment is softened by 

 heat and injected with a sterile syringe of glass or metal, tnrough the nozzle 

 alone, or through a sterile rubber tube — until the fistula is filled. Every 

 third day enough more is injected to replace that which has escaped. R. 

 Bismuth subnitrate, 6 parts; white wax and soft paraffin, each 1 part; 

 vaseline, 12 parts. Boil and mix and place in a sterile jar. Substitute chalk 

 for bismuth to avoid poisoning when several ounces are required. In fisu- 

 lous withers and poll a 7% solution of dichloramine-T in chlorcosane has 

 proved curative. 



Or inject daily with hydrogen dioxide (8 oz.) containing 2 m. of formalin, 

 if free opening. To secure healing, inject daily — after above — carbolic acid 

 in glycerine, or tine, of iodine ; or 3 per cent, silver nitrate solution. Curette 

 and open up sinuses. If milder meeisures fail, use arsenic or corrosive sub- 

 limate. If fistula refuses to heal, suspect foreign body or dead bone or ten- 

 don in wound. In fistulous withers and poll evil the use of a mixed bacterin 

 has been successful. 



Flatulence. See Tympanites, Colic, Indigestion. 



Fleas. 



In Dog and Cat — Frequent grooming and 2 per cent, creolin or lysol 

 baths, followed by clean water and drying. Clean bedding of sawdust or 

 shavings, frequently changed. Application of pyrethrum to dampened hair, 

 but not in puppies and kittens. Carbolic soap. Oil of anise. 



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