DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS 607 



Seedy Toe in Horses. 

 Sequel to laminitis. 



Remove all diseased horn and apply Peru balsam to the exposed tissues. 

 If there is lameness, use bran and flaxseed poultice mixed with 2 per cent, 

 lysol solution. Otherwise, blister the coronet. Apply a, bar-shoe with sole 

 pressure and keep the cavity dressed with the balsam. Frequent changing 

 of the shoe and trimming of the foot is required to restore and keep it in 

 normal shape. 



Septicemia. Pyemia. SapreMia. 



In blood poisoning, with germs or their jiroducts, >the treatment is chiefly 

 surgical: the use of antiseptic poultices or other antiseptic applications to 

 wounds; the removal of septic and dead tissue by the knife; the drainage 

 of purulent foci, etc. Nourishing diet — reinforced by milk and eggs, beef 

 juice, bovinine, alcohol and quinine, etc. The fresh horse serum (D., 3ii-iv, 

 H., gii-iv) given subcutaneously has germicidal effect. Blood transfusion in 

 protracted sepsis. Oil of turpentine may be used as a stimulant and anti- 

 septic (H., 3i) in emulsion with milk and eggs. Calomel is useful as an 

 antiseptic cathartic. Saline infusions are often most valuable. CoUargol 

 intravenously. Antistreptococcic serum is remedial in streptococcus infec- 

 tion. The tincture of ferric chloride is indicated during and succeeding an 

 attack. 



Sexual Excitement. Nymphomania. Satyriasis. 



In female (nymphomania), sexual excitement depends upon various in- 

 flammatory diseases, as vaginitis, metritis and other disorders of the vagina, 

 womb, ovary. Retained testis is a common cause in males. Over feeding, 

 lack of exercise, and constant companionship with females favor sexual ex- 

 citement in the male. Treatment consists in removing the cause, as surgery 

 in organic lesions yielding to the knife. Secure only proper amount of 

 coition and avoid proximity of maje to opposite sex. Give hard work, low 

 diet, and full doses of potassium bromide. If trouble due to spinal or cere- 

 bral lesions, little can be done. As a last resource, castration of either sex 

 or slaughter. 



Shipping Fever. See Influenza. 



Shoe Ball. See Capped Elbow. 



Shoulder Ball (In the Horse). 



Sprain of the spihati and, to a less extent of the teres muscles, with swell- 

 ing, followed by atrophy of these parts. In the acute stage, apply constant, 

 hot fomentations to the shoulder muscles, and secure absolute rest. When 

 local tenderness and swelling abate, apply cantharides blister to muscle, 

 and later exercise at pasture may lead to recovery. Local intramuscular 

 injections of veratrine may be of service in atrophy of the muscles. Occa- 

 sional blistering is of most service. Avoid ploughing to prevent return of 

 trouble. 



Sick, Destruction of. 



Strychnine, chloroform, prussic acid, venesection. 



Side Bone in the Horse. Ossification or the Lateral Cartilages. 



Rest and cold swab about foot with heat and lameness. In other cases, 

 firing and blistering are indicated, and the application of a bar-shoe. The 

 efl'ects of concussion may be somewhat averted by making a groove below 

 the cartilage in the wall of the foot with a knife or firing iron. Neurectomy 

 in otherwise sound limbs. 



Sitfast. See Saddle Galls. 



Sleepy Staggers. See Encephalitis. 



Snake Bite. See Bites. 



Sore Throat. See Pharyngitis. 



Sores. See Wounds. 



Sore Shins. See Periostitis and Ostitis. ^, 



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