594 EPITOME OF MODERN TREATMENT 



difficult of cure. Sarcoptic mange, caused by Sarcoptes squamiferus, attaclts 

 head, ciiest, belly, elbows, root of tail and claws, and spreads to whole body. 

 Readily cured. Isolate to prevent spread to man or dogs. Apply muzzle and 

 clip hair over lesions. In sarcoptic mange, Peru balsam and sulphur oint- 

 ment (3i-Si), or 1 part each, liquid tar and soft soap, and 8 parts of alcohol. 

 For follicular mange, weeks or months are required and result is doubtful. 

 Shave hair from affected area. Give bath of potassa sulphurata (% of 1 

 per cent.) for 15 minutes; follow by friction with pure Peru balsam. Creolin 

 in 2 per cent, bath, followed by friction with equal parts creolin and alcohol, 

 once or twice daily. Squeeze pus from all pustules. Try staphylococcus 

 bacterin for suppuration. 



Masturbation. Onanism. 



Dogs and Rams; Bulls and Stallions. 



Regular exercise or work, and light diet. Punishment; moderate amount 

 of copulation. Castration, if habit incurable. 

 Megrims. See Vert'cgo, Blind Staggers. 

 Melanosis. Melanotic Sarcoma. 



Seen chiefly in grey horses. Remove by knife; recurrence rather the rule. 

 Meningitis. See Encephalitis and Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. 

 Metritis, Acute and Chronic. See also Puerperal Fever or Septic 

 Metritis. 



Examine uterus with speculum. Treatment purely local and takes time 

 and money. Animal may recover spontaneously at pasture. Otherwise, 

 irrigate wilh 2 per cent, lysol solution daily. Apply Churchill's tincture of 

 iodine to lacerations of cervix and eroded os; or light application of actual 

 cautery. Also dilate cervix and curette uterus, followed by loose packing 

 with iodoform gauze for a few days. Afterwards daily lysol irrigations. 

 Muscular Rheumatism. 



Warm covering. Give a purge: H., physic ball, C, Glauber's salt, D., 

 two compound cathartic pills. Rest of affected parts. Give sodium salicylate 

 and potassium iodide in combination, in capsules, to dogs, to large animals in 

 solution, thrice daily. Or the iodide may be reserved for subacute and 

 chronic cases. Externally, rub into affected part methyl salicylate or chloro- 

 form liniment. Heat is also very efficacious ; hot wet blankets covered with 

 rubber sheet and dry blanket, or apply dry blanket and iron over it with hot 

 flat iron. Puncture of affected muscles with sterile needles, or injection of 

 sterile water, sometimes effective. Shoulder lameness — Inject veratrine into 

 muscle (H., gr. %, to ly^ in alcohol, m.xxx), followed by walking exercise. 

 Chronic cases — Tonic treatment; cod liver oil; massage with liniment, moder- 

 ate exercise and attention to hygiene. 

 Myalgia, Myositis. See Muscular Rheumatism. 

 Myocarditis. See Heart Disease. 

 Nagana oh Tsetse — Fly Disease. 



Horses, Cattle and Dogs. Caused by Trypanosoma Brucei conveyed by 

 Glossina morsitans or tsetse fly. 



Arsenical preparations as atoxy], sodium cacodylate most useful. 



Nasal Catarrh or Rhinitis, Chronic. Gleet (In the Horse). 



,,, Use cleansing, antiseptic, astringent solutions by atomizer, or fountain 



.», syringe and rubber tube in nostrils, by trephining chambers above, or by 



. . stpi;n.ach tube introciuced through posterior nasal openings. Cleansing and 



antiseptic solution, sodium bicarbonate and biborate (of each, oiiss to 01), 



with 3i tincture of iodine. Dobell's solution. Astringents, cupric sulphate or 



alum (% per cent.); tannic acid or zinc sulphate (% per cent, solution). 



Solutioi^s changed each two weeks. Outdoor life, feeding ou ground; good 



food; bitters and iron. Isolation, unless glanders can be surely excluded. 



Gleet very often secondary and due to ulceration of pituitary membrane, 



carious teeth, facial sinusitis, glandei:s; catarrh of guttural pouches, tumors, 



parasites, abscess, etc. Employ a rjiinoscope ,and inject mallein or use com- 



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