596 EPITOME OF MODERN TREATMENT 



Nymphomania. See Sexual Excitement. 



Obesity. 



Diet the chief remedy. In dogs, tablets of desiccated thyroid gland, (gr.i-iii 

 each) thrice daily. Restlessness and palpitation show overdosage; otherwise 

 Increase above dose. Potassium iodide, after meals thrice daily. Daily 

 laxative and exercise. 



Omphalophlebitis. See Umbilical Infection. 

 Opacity of Cornea. See Corneal Opacities. 



Open Joint. 



In recent wound, shave adjacent parts, wash them carefully with soap and 

 water and 70 per cent, alcohol. Douche wound with force for 15 to 30 min- 

 utes, using corrosive sublimate (1 to 2,000), or lysol (2 per cent), or other 

 antiseptic solution, or simply inject ether. Often best to simply cover punc- 

 ture with sterile gauze, shave hair away without wetting skin, wash skin with 

 gasoline, and then swab wound and surrounding skin with tincture iodine. 

 Then suture and close wound with "iodoform coUodium (1 to 10), sterile 

 gauze and bandage, if latter possible. If suturing impossible, apply fly blis- 

 ters about joint. If bandaging is not feasible, apply constant cold antiseptic 

 irrigation to the joint for next few days. Try Bier's hyperemia. Remove 

 shoes from horses and place in slings. Prescribe purge. Whenever possible 

 place over bandage a firm plaster of paris, wood or tin splint. 



Open Joint, Infected. 



Open so as to irrigate and drain thoroughly, then flush with ether. Band- 

 age and dress with sterile gauze daily, after thorough irrigation with anti- 

 septic fluid, as above. Fixation by splint, if possible. (Bier's hyperemia.) 

 Repeated blisters in large animals may aid. Recovery occurs only with 

 stiffness, or ankylosis, in most cases. Treatment in large animals of open, 

 infected joints having much motion is not usually profitable. . Laxative diet — 

 H. and C, mashes, gruels, roots and green food. Dogs, gruels and milk, 

 during acute stage. 



Ophthalmia. (Periodic in Horses.) 



Confine in dark quarters. Foment eye with hot boric acid (2 per cent.) 

 solution for one-half hour at time, thrice daily. Drop 1 per cent, solution 

 of atropine sulphate in eye four to six times daily. Internally, give physic 

 ball, and sweet spirit of nitre and sodium salicylate (3ii), thrice daily, and 

 sloppy or green food. Iron and gentian during convalescence. 



Ophthalmia, Simple. See Conjunctivitis. 



Orchitis or Epididymo-Orchitis. 



Seen in males owing to infections, trauma and tuberculosis. 

 Support and compress testicle by thick pad and bandage. In acute stage, 

 apply ice-bag to testicle, or hot flaxseed poultices, or lead and opium lotion, 

 or antiphlogistine in a thick coating. Give smart purge ana restrict diet to 

 soft food. After acute symptoms subside, touch scrotum lightly in 10 or 12 

 points with Paquelin cautery every few days and cover with compress of 

 cotton and bandage. Also, to aid resolution, ointments of guaiacol (10 per 

 cent.), or ichthyol (20 per cent.), or mercury may be rubbed in daily. As- 

 piration of fluid in tunica vaginalis advisable if done aseptically. In hema- 

 toma resulting in abscess, incise tunica vaginalis and stitch it to edge of skin 

 incision; wipe out with pure phenol and drain sac. Tuberculous form asso- 

 ciated with tuberculosis of kidneys, bladder and prostate (examine per 

 rectum) ; if only testicle affected, castrate. 



Osteomalacia. 



In enzootic cases treatment is unavailing. Treatment must be undertaken 

 early. Food from other localities best. Beef meal, peas, Deans, oats, bran, 

 linseed or cotton seed meal, green clover or alfalfa are among the best foods. 

 Change water and pasture. Apply phosphatic fertilizers on pastures or 

 ipdadows. Mix equally bone meal and precipitated lime pnosphate, give C. 

 §i; Sh. and Sw., 3i-ii. To this add equal parts ferrous sulphate and nux 



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