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thyol, unguentum hydrargyri and unguentum belladonna, or employ a fly 

 blister. Fibrolysin. 



Inflammation. 



Acute— General treatment with aconite, veratrum, or, in robust patients 

 and with very urgent symptoms, venesection. Cool, airy, box stall, moderate 

 body covering and bandage for limbs, in case of horses. Internally, laxa- 

 tives. Calomel is an intestinal disinfectant as well. Externally, counter- 

 irritation in some, form. When trouble localized, hot poultices or ice. To 

 relieve pain and quiet animal, opium, bromides, chloral. Stimulate renal 

 secretion: , spirit of nitrous ether, potassium citrate, or nitrate. Diet. 

 Stimulants to support the heart, strychnine. In convalescence, bitters and 

 alcohol, hydrochloric acid. 



In chronic inflammation, supportive treatment. Internally, iodides to 

 aid resolution. Externally, in local troubles, counter-irritants. 



Influenza in Horses. Shipping Fever. Distemper. Pink Eye. 



Cool, airy box stall. Moderate covering of body and bandaging of limbs. 

 Clean and disinfect floors, walls and feed boxes daily. Provide separate 

 attendants for sick. Move bowels by enemata or milk laxatives. Diet — 

 Bran mashes, boiled oats, milk, beef tea, eggs, green food. Strychnine solu- 

 tion dropped on tongue thrice daily and turpentine liniment rubbed daily 

 onto limbs and belly to prevent edema. Steaming with compound tincture 

 benzoin and application of turpentine liniment and bandage to throat, to 

 relieve catarrh of upper air passages. With laryngitis, apply fly blister to 

 larynx. With weak, feeble pulse, give strychnine as above and alcohol, as 

 gin and digitalis; or strophanthus, or camphor, or caffeine, or coffee. Anti- 

 pyretics rarely desirable, except in hyperpyrexia, then a few doses of 

 acetanilid at S-hour intervals. Spirit of nitrous ether, aconite, and solution 

 of ammonium acetate may be given. Alcohol as food and nerve sedative. 

 With icterus, give \ pint of linseed oil and sodium bicarbonate on food. 

 When conjunctivitis, keratitis and iritis complicate, see these disorders. 

 In shipping fever a variety of bacteria have been found. Prominent among 

 these are streptococci (In 80% of cases) ; also staphylococci, pneumococci, 

 B. equisepticus, B. coli, etc. These are probably secondary infections in 

 most cases. Shipping fever includes influenza (due to unknown filtrable 

 virus), strangles, due to S. equi, and contagious pneumonia. In these three 

 diseases bacterins of the above organisms have a distinct preventive and 

 curative effect by averting secondary infections. The antitoxic serum taken 

 from horses recovered from influenza (preferably in the same outbreak) 

 has most curative and temporary preventive action. The same remarks 

 apply to the great 1918 human influenza outbreak, due to unknown 

 organism, where bacterins afforded some transient immunity against sec- 

 ondary and chiefly streptococcic infections. Suspects showing rise of tem- 

 perature and all cases of influenza should be isolated. Communication of 

 influenza by utensils and attendants should be avoided. Disinfect premises 

 when cases no longer exist. For special complications, as pneumonia, pur- 

 pura, enteritis, meningitis, paraplegia, synovitis, laminitis, etc., see titles of 

 these disorders. 



Interfering. 



Improve the general condition and shoeing. Set shoes a little away from 

 inner margin of foot or employ three-quarter shoe, or a shoe thin on inside 

 web, without heel on outside. Apply an interfering strap on fetlock which 

 is struck. 



Intertrigo. See Erythema. 



Intestinal Hemorrhage. See Hemdrrhage, Enterorrhagia. 

 Intestinal Indigestion and Catarrh. See Indigestion and Enteritis. 

 Intussusception or Invagination. See Colic. 



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