Diseases of domestic animals 595 



plement fixation or agglutination test. Discharge from one nostril is not 

 usually simple gleet. 



Navel Disease. See Umbilical Infection. 



Navicular Disease (in Horse). 



In acute cases remove shoes and use foot bath of hot or cold water, for 

 hours at a time, with flaxseed poultice each night. Give green food, mashes 

 and hay. Prescribe a physic ball. When heat and tenderness in foot sub- 

 side, apply fly blister about coronet after clipping hair. Shoe with rubber 

 pad (shoe thick at heels and thin at toe), after a few weeks of rest. If 

 lameness persists, plantar neurectomy may be done in animals with good feet 

 and limbs. 



Necrobacillosis. See Lip-and-Leg Ulceration in Sheep. 



Nephritis, Acute. (In Horses, Cattle and Dogs.) 



Prophylaxis — In acute infections, avoid draughts, and use warm covering 

 for patients; enforce rest, secure activity of bowels and skin and give 

 abstemious diet. In acute nephritis, withhold all food and drink for the first 

 few days. Diet — D., milk; large animals, mashes, green food and milk, after 

 starving period. Give aloes ball (horse), Glauber's salt to cattle; compound 

 jalap powder to dogs (31) at onset. Hot blankets over whole body and 

 mustard paste over loiiis. Pilocarpine, with strychnine, hypodermically. 

 With marked hematuria, fluidextract ergot thrice daily. In later stages, as a 

 diuretic, tine, digitalis with potassium citrate. In convalescence, tine, ferric 

 chloride. Uremia is combated by cathartics and venesection; and convulsions 

 by chloral hydrate, chloroform inhalation and morphine under the skin. 



Nephritis, Chronic. (All Animals.) 



Tincture of chloride of iron and sweet spirit of nitre thrice daily. In 

 dropsy, see Dropsy. Withhold common salt from the food. Protect animal 

 from exposure to cold. In dogs, chiefly milk diet. Sodium bicarbonate for 

 acidosis and edema. In Uremia, treat as recommended for Acute Nephritis. 



Nephritis, Suppurative. Pyelo-Nephritis. Pyelitis. 



Seen in all animals; often in cows and mares following septic parturient 

 states. In cattle it' is often best to fatten and slaughter. Secure drinking 

 of large amounts of water by placing an abundance of salt upon food. In 

 early stage, spirit of nitrous ether and potassium acetate thrice daily. Hexa- 

 methylenamine, best remedy in all stages of disease. When urine alkaline, 

 give sodium benzoate to large animals ; to small animals, give urotropin with 

 salol and boric acid, as urinary antiseptics. In chronic conditions in dogs, 

 give sandalwood oil in capsules (m.x). In large animals in chronic pyelitis, 

 give fluidextract buchu. Accompanying anemia is treated with strychnine 

 and tincture of ferric chloride on the tongue. Isolation of patients is desir- 

 able to prevent infection of parturient animals. 



Nervous Palpitation of the Heart. 



Seen in horses and dogs from over-exertion, indigestion, "nervousness." 

 In severe cases, morphine. Also spirit of chloroform in less urgent cases. 

 Or chloral and potassium bromide may be given. In asthenia and over-exer- 

 tion, especially with irregular pulse, prescribe tincture of digitalis with 

 tincture of aconite thrice daily. In anemia, give ferrous sulphate and nux 

 vomica to horses. Indigestion, as a, cause, demands a physic and restriction 

 of food. 



Nettlehash. Surfeit. Hives, See Urticaria. 



N-euralgia. Neuritis. 



Give laxatives, especially castor oil. In debility and anemia, give strych- 

 nine in increasing doses; also iron, arsenic and phosphorus in combination 

 (in pill or otherwise). Locally, freeze nerve with ethyl chloride spray, or 

 apply PriesSnitz poultice, or menthol, or blister over root of, or along cour5e 

 of, nerve, or nerve-stretching or cutting. Potassium iodide in rheumatic 

 cases. To simply relieve pain, morphine injected locally under -the skin, 

 antipyrine, internally. Aconitine locally, gelsemium internally. In wound or 

 injury, apply antiseptic poultice. In asthenia, see Debility. 



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