AN EPITOME OF MODEEN TREATMENT OP 

 DISEASES OP THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



The numlaers in tWs section refer to page numbers in the text of the book where 

 a detailed account of the remedy may be found. 



Abortion. 



(1) Accidental, all animals ; (3) Epizootic, in cows and ewes. 

 1. To prevent, give opium 368 ; rest, laxative diet. 2. Isolate, hum 

 foetus and membranes ; disinfect prepiises, 735 ; empty uterus. 

 Antiseptic vaginal injections ; lysol, 335 ; creolin, 334 ; carbolic acid, 

 339; corrosive sublimate, 216. Separate attendant and utensils; 

 patients must not go to bull till vaginal discharge ceases ; bull apt 

 to become infected and if has balanitis is unfitted for service of 

 healthy animals. Give subcutaneously 3 ii. of 3 per cent, carbolic 

 acid solution every ten days as prophylactic and curative remedy. 



Abscess. 



To abort, paint with tincture of iodine, 246 ; or inject 10 or more 

 m. of 2 per cent carbolic acid solution ; poultices, 714; fly blister, 703;; 

 open with knife or actual cautery under ethyl chloride spray, 350, and 

 cocaine, 434. After opening, inject antiseptics, as hydrogen dioxide,. 

 120, and iodoform with vaseline or glycerin, 252. To aid resolution, 

 a blister of cantharides, 646, 702. 



Abscess, Cold. 



Open with actual cautery or knife ; inject antiseptics, as carbolic 

 acid in glycerine, 329; Peruvian balsam, 511. Dress with powder, 

 equal parts of tannic acid, boric acid, iodoform and charcoal. 



AcABlASis. See Mange. 



ACNE. 



Prevent by avoiding rough harness and by constant cleansing 

 with sulphur soap after removal of harness. Abort by applying pure 

 carbolic acid. When acute, hot fomentations with borax, 3 ii-Oi ; 

 dry sulphur, sulphur ointment, 258. Fowler's solution in chronic 

 cases, 236. 



ACTESOMTCOSIS. 



Chiefly in young cattle, aflEecting the jaw and tongue, soft pa,rts 

 of head, pharynx, larynx, skin and internal organs. Excise, 

 curette, chisel. Apply tincture or compound solution of iodine to 

 wound, or iodoform. Large doses of potassium iodide mternally, 

 349 ; good food and tonics. 



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