diseases of domestic animals 609 



Stomatitis. 



In simple stomatitis, use mel boracis (B. P.) on a swab in the mouth. 

 The food should be liquid or soft. Give potassium chlorate internally. 

 With ulceration, swab out mouth with 1 per cent. lysol or creolin solution 

 several times daily and touch the ulcers with 10 per cent, silver solution, 

 or with tincture of iodine. To the large animals, give a few drams of 

 Glauber's salt and saleratus on the food thrice daily. There is also an in- 

 fectious pustular form of stomatitis affecting horses. The local treatment is 

 the same as above but isolation of patients followed by disinfection is indi- 

 cated. To sheep, sodium chloride and salicylate in their drinking water (in 

 the proportion of 15 gr. each to the pint). Hydrogen dioxide is perhaps 

 the most effective antiseptic mouth-wash, but more expensive than boric 

 acid. Stomatitis is very prevalent in the young. Fresh air, cleanly prem- 

 ises and exercise must be given. Nourishing food is a requisite to recovery. 

 Isolate the sick and avoid common use of utensils for eating or drinking. 

 Stomatitis is a complication of infected umbilicus in calves; gangrenous 

 tissue must be cut away and the navel swabbed with tincture of iodine and 

 packed with iodoform and boric acid. 



Strains. See Sprains. 



Strangles in Horses. 



Give antistrangle bacterin or serum as a preventive and polyvalent anti- 

 streptococcic serum as a curative agent. A bacterin made of S. equi is a 

 good prophylactic agent given to horses in doses of 1 to 2 mils. 



Isolate the sick in roomy, airy box-stall and disinfect the vacated prem- 

 ises. Diet — Gruels, mashes, steamed oats, grass, roots; and milk, eggs and 

 alcohol, if there is anorexia. Apply, and frequently renew, hot flaxseed 

 poultices to the inflamed submaxillary gland, and open when "ripe." 

 Syringe abscess cavity with hydrogen dioxide and dress with Peru balsam. 

 Remove induration by a fly blister to the surrounding area. Treat compli- 

 cations as they arise. Tracheotomy is required for obstruction about the 

 larynx. 



Stringhalt in Horses. 

 Several forms. 



1. In some cases it is purely a functional nervous disease like chorea; 

 treatment on this basis includes the use of bromides, improvement in gen- 

 eral hygiene, and rest. 



2. A form dependent on retraction of peroneo-phalangeus, which may be 

 cured by peroneal tenotomy and aponeurotomy. 



3. A form produced by tarsal deformative arthritis, or spavin. Treat as 

 recommended for spavin. 



4. Patellar form. Sometimes cured by section of the tibio-pateUar liga- 

 ment. 



Sturdy. See Coenurus Cerebralis. 

 Sunstroke. Insolation. Heat Stroke. 



1. Apoplectic form, with coma and very high rectal temperature. Turn 

 hose of cold water on the head and body and make vigorous friction of the 

 body with ice. With injected mucosa and labored breathing, venesection. 

 With failing pulse, inject under the skin of the horse camphor (gr.xv), with 

 ether (3ss), and sweet oil (3ii). Also cocaine, strychnine subcut. 



2. In the form with weak pulse and prostration (without hyperpyrexia), 

 give stimulants as above, and externally hot pack. 



Prophylaxis: Head coverings; give cold water frequently and apply it to 

 head; moderate work; avoid work in heat of day. 

 Surgical Shock. 



Give morphine hypodermically, and adrenalin intramuscularly, and apply 

 heat externally with mustard. Inject normal salt solution into the rectum, 

 intraperitoneally, into a vein, or under the skin. Blood transfusion. Also 

 camphor, atropine, pituitrin, strychnine and tincture of digitalis given 

 hypodermatically. 

 Surfeit. See Urticar^jgjfj^ecl by Microsoft® 



