586 EPITOME OF MODERN TREATMENT 



By inhalation — Lambs. Give chloroform inhalation till animals stagger. 

 After 3 hours follow with dose of Epsom salt to remove worms coughed up 

 and swallowed. 2 or 3 treatments 3 days apart will cure. Calves, 3ii each 

 of oil of turpentine and ether poured in each nostril of upturned head for 

 one or more treatments (Read). Inhalation equal parts tar, sulphur and 

 turpentine from kettle for 25 minutes for three treatments. 



Lambs — Internally, oil of turpentine (3i), or oil of turpentine and tine, 

 camphor; of each 3i once daily in milk; or creosote (oil), benzine (Si), and 

 water (2 qts.) in teaspoonful doses for week (Moussu) once daily. 



Intratracheal Injections — Calves, oil of turpentine (3ii), phenol (m.xx), 

 with chloroform (3ss) for one injection. Generous feeding. Iron and bit- 

 ters. Slaughter of severe cases. 



Hyatids in Cattle and Sheep. See Coenurosis. 



Hydrocele (Dropsy) of Scrotum. 



Distinguish from hernia by failure to reduce and translucency. Insert 

 hypodermic needle, and then completely empty with aspirator or fine trocdr. 

 Screw on hypodermic syringe to needle and inject pure phenol (m. x to xxx 

 small animals; 3ii or more in large animals). In failure to cure, open scro- 

 tum, swab tunica vaginalis with pure phenol, and drain. 



Hydrocephalus (Dropsy of Lateral Ventricles). Sleepy St.\ggers. 

 In Horses; rare in Cattle, Dogs and Swine. Impossible to effect a cure.- 

 General care as to excess in exercise, with laxative, restricted, nutritious diet. 

 Quiet and cool quarters. Potassium iodide. Tap lateral ventricle. 



Hydrophobia. See Rabies. 

 Hydrothorax. 



Purge with concentrated solution of salts in large animals; in dogs, give 

 compound jalap powder (3ss) in capsule. 



Internally, digitalis and oil of juniper, and sweet spirit of nitre thrice 

 daily to horse. For dogs, calomel and digitalis. Also give strychnine as 

 heart stimulant. 



Externally, applications of mustard paste. Pilocarpine (Friedberger) sub- 

 cutaneously. In severe dyspnea and in large effusions, aspirate pleural cavity. 

 Impaction of Colon in Horse. See Colic from Impaction. 

 Impaction of Omasum, Dry Murrain, Fardel Bound, Stomach or 

 Grass Staggers. 



In cattle; more rarely in Sheep and Goats. Epsom and common salt, with 

 croton oil (C, m.xx). In non-febrile cases, two or three pails of linseed tea 

 daily. Eserine (gr.i) with pilocarpine (gr.iii), in urgent cases. Enemata — 

 Fluidextract of nux vomica thrice daily. With head symptoms, ice to poll. 

 After free purgation, give sloppy food with plenty of salt and continue nux 

 vomica thrice daily. 

 Impaction op Rumen in Sheep and Cattle. 



To relieve tympany, puncture with trocar iij most prominent point in left 

 flank. Follow with daily doses of Glauber's salt and linseed oil, and fluid- 

 extract of nux vomica thrice daily, and light diet of hay and mashes. Or 

 give subcutaneously eserine (C, gr.i), and pilocarpine (C., gr.ii), in urgent 

 cases. In less urgent cases give the salines, nux vomica and mashes as above. 

 In acute and chronic cases, rumenotomy is indicated when medical treatment 

 is unsuccessful, except in febrile cases and old cows; not more than two- 

 thirds of rumen contents should be removed (Moussu). 

 Tx UN riNENCE OF Urine. See Urinary Retention and Incontinence. 

 Impotence, Inability to Copulate. 



1. Loss of sexual desire and power (functional). — Regulate exercise and 

 work, by deceasing or increasing, if either excessive. Avoid excessive or 

 early copulation. Yohimbine hydrochloride. Give tincture cantharides and 

 fluidextract nux vomica well diluted, thrice daily. 



2. Organic impotence — Growths, disease and malformations or paralysis 

 rarely yield to drugs. 



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