DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS 581 



Fly-Blow in Sheep. 



Dress wounds with tar, and 2 per cent, solutions of lysol or creolin. 



FoOT-AND-MoUTH DiSEASE. EPIZOOTIC EcZEMA. 



In Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Goats. — The only rational treatment is prophy- 

 lactic. Strict quarantine of infected premises and animals, and kiU all 

 exposed and diseased animals as soon as possible. After diseased animals 

 removed, disinfect premises. Healthy animals not put in disinfected prem- 

 ises for three months. Bum or bury dead carcasses and infected manure. 

 Older treatment follows: Diet: Gruels, mashes, green fodder, pulped roots. 

 Wash mouth often with saturated boric acid, hydrogen dioxide, or potassium 

 chlorate solution on swab. Drinking water constantly at animal's command. 

 Clean, dry bedding. Feet washed with 2 per cent, lysol or creolin. Com- 

 presses wet with white lotion containing phenol, 1 per cent., constantly kept 

 about coronets of cattle. Tar also applied to feet. Carbolized vaseline is 

 used on the teats. Milk of patients unfit for food; boil 20 minutes before 

 feeding it to animals. Two weeks after recovery, cleansing and disinfection 

 of premises. During enzootic, inoculation of saliva of patient into well ani- 

 mal will cause a milder form of disease. 



Foot-Rot in Sheep. 



Two forms, 1. Infectious, due to B. necrophorus. 2. Traumatic from long 

 journeys over rough ground. 



Segregate newly bought animals for three weeks. Isolate patients and 

 treat by driving (thrice weekly) through foot baths of creolin 3 per cent, or 

 ferrous sulphate, 4 per cent., or milk of lime. Furnish clean litter and dry 

 quarters. If severe, treat feet locally by removing dead horn, applying oint- 

 taent of cresol, 6; sulphur, 10; lard, 100; or carbolic acid in glycerin (1-10), 

 or iodine or creolin ointment (5 per cent.). Cauterize fungous growths with 

 pure phenol and protect parts with tar. In the form originating in bruises 

 of sole, and purely traumatic, treatment consists in putting sheep on soft, 

 dry pastures, cutting away dead horn and applying tar. 



Founder. See Lamimtis. 



Foreign Bodies in Alimentary Tract. See Choking. 



Dogs — ^When swallowing of foreign body is known to occur, give bread 

 and porridge as diet. Cathartic 36 hours after ingestion, providing it is a 

 blunt body. Remove from within anus if symptoms of straining and lodge- 

 ment there. Abdominal section, if foreign body is not passed. 

 In ruminants the treatment is purely surgical. 



Foul in the Foot of Cattle. Canker. 



Often due to B. necrophorus. Isolate the sick. Lameness, swelling, heat 

 and tenderness of claws with resulting abscesses, ulcers and sinuses about 

 the heels and pasterns. Curette necrotic areas, apply Lugol's solution, and 

 dust with calomel. 



Avoid wet, dirty stables and litter. Remove all loose horn and expose 

 sensitive diseased parts for treatment. May also apply carbolic acid in 

 glycerin (1-10), 2 per cent, creolin or lysol, and protect with oil of cade or 

 tar on tow and bandaging. Stimulate by applications of nitric acid, and 

 dress with powdered alum and iodoform, or iodoform and tannin, equal parts. 



Fowl Cholera. 



Treat with dilute hydrochloric acid (m.v), and ferrous sulphate (gr.v), 

 or tannic acid (gr.v), in ounce of peppermint water; dose: ,5ss hourly for 

 fowl; 1 teaspoonful for pigeons. Prevent by isolation of well in new quar- 

 ters, and administering hemorrhagic septicemia bacterin. Burn dead and 

 discharges. Before reoccupation of premises, hen yard must have surface 

 soil removed and replaced by new earth. Thorough cleaning, disinfection 

 and whitewashing of hen house. 



Fractures. 



Examine and set under anesthetic. Large animals, slings. Plaster of 

 Paris or starch bandages or splints. In non-union, rub ends of bone to- 

 gether; or puncture ends of bones with drill; or suture with silver wire or 



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