760 KPITOME OF MODERN TEEATMENT OF 



After-Pains. 



Remove membranes and clots ; opium, 368 ; morphine, 368. If 

 fever and foul vaginal discharge are present, see Puerperal Fever. 



Aged Animals, destruction of. 



Bullet, 307 ; chloroform, 307 ; prussic acid, 846. 



Alopecia (Baldness). 



If general, due to debility, give good food, iron, 201; arsenic, 237; 

 bitters, 554; and apply to skin tinct. cantharis, | i ; lin. saponis, 

 J viii. "W ith scaling, use sulphur ointment, 255, and add later to it 

 Peruvian balsam, 1-8; also groom very thoroughly. In alopecia 

 areata, use ung. chrysarobini ; or equal parts alcohol and tine, iodi; 

 or creolin and alcohol(l-10-20); or balsani of Peru and alcohol (1-10). 



Amauroses. 



Treatment depends on cause. If owing to debility, loss of blood, 

 trauma or quinine poisoning, give strychnine internally, 409; and 

 apply fly blister. 645, about temples. In amaurosis due to cerebral 

 disease (concussion, hydatids, parturient apoplexy), to renal dis- 

 order, convulsions, lead poisoning, etc., treatment depends upon 

 the causative factor. 



Ammenorrhea. See Sterility. 



Anemia, 



Remove primary cause. Full diet. 690 ; fresh air and exercise ; 

 comfortable housing; , sodium chloride. 139, and HCl, 262; iron, 

 201 ; arsenic, 336 ; quinine, 488 ; gentian, 554 ; strychnine, 410 ; 

 cupric sulphate, 188. Cod liver oil, 657 ; myrrh, 535. Clip horses 

 Tvith thick coats. In pernicious form. Fowler's solution in increas- 

 ing doses till the maximum dose is reached : H., J ii twice daily; 

 D., Tilxxx thrice daily. 



Anemia, Infectious, of Horses, Asses and Mules. 



Treatment is purely symptomatic and is not very successful. 

 GiN'e antipyretics fur fever : acetanilid 3 ii and quinine sulph, gr.40 

 t.i.d. When fever subsides give pulv. ferri sulph 3 ii, acid arsenosi 

 gr.3, quin. sulph. gr.xxx, pulv. nucis vom. 3 J, pulv. gent. | i; M. 

 et f . pulv. I.; give one such t.i.d. Give laxative food and daily 

 enemata of cold water to excite peristalsis and reduce fever. 



Aneurism. 



Radical cure by ligation of aneurism on either side of sac and 

 excision of sac. When impossible, ligate proximal side. Employ 

 Matas' operation, in which temporary ligation on either side of sac 

 and obliteration of orifices and sac with layers of buried chromic 

 gut sutures are done and continuity of vessel remains intact. Con- 

 tinuous pressure by liands or truss; potassium iodide, 249; ergot 

 injections into sac in early stages ; needling ; acupuncture ; intro- 

 duction of foreign bodies into sac, as wire. 



Anorexia (Appetite, loss of). 



Gentian, 554; cinchona, 488; quinine, 488; quassia, 556; cascar- 

 illa, 557; calumba, 558; taraxacum, 560; hydrastis, 563; hydrastine, 

 563; hydrastin, 562; calamus, 564; capsicum, 526. 



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