DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 761 



Anthrax. Chaebon. In Cattle, Horses and Sheep. 



Treatment is chiefly preventive ; bodies of dead burned or buried 

 •7 feet deep, with hide intact. Flesh of the dead may communicate 

 the disease, if eaten. Isolate or kill patients ; infected premises 

 and discharges must be thoroughly disinfected, 735 ; avoid in- 

 fected pastures ; anthrax vaccine confers immunity, 753 ; medical 

 treatment is generally unsuccessful and may lead to infection of 

 attendants or other animals. Internally, calomel and salts, in 

 cattle, and carbolic acid or creolin in enormous doses have aided 

 recovery in some cases, 333, 335 ; injection of 5 per cent, carbolic acid 

 solution at many points in anthrax carbuncles has proven curative 

 in human patients. 



Aphtha. See Stomatitis. 



Apoplexy, Cerebral. 



Raise head, ice bag to poll ; venesection, 4-8 quarts in horse, 730 ; 

 veratrum, 467. Mustard paste to legs and bandage ; croton oil, 583 : 

 dark, quiet quarters ; gruels and mashes, if svsrallowing is possible. 

 Change in position important ; also use of the catheter and ene- 

 mata. To aid resolution, potassium iodide, 249 ; strychnine, 409 ; 

 massage and electricity. 



Apoplexy, Parturient. In Co-wa. 



Prevent by vi^itiiholding grain last six vreeks of pregnancy, except 

 bran mashes ; also give Epsom salts occasionally. Kunsel's treat- 

 ment, 737, successful in 90 per cent of cases. Enemata, 737 ; ice to 

 poll ; bandage legs ; prop patient up on sternum and cliange position 

 every few hours. Catheterize and use enemata ; strychnine, 737 ; 

 alcohol, if collapse. Avoid drenches if animal unconscious ; other- 

 wise, give Epsom salts, 163. For resulting paralysis, use potassium 

 iodide, 249 ; strychnine, 737 ; blister over lumbar region ; gruels and 

 mashes during convalesenoe. 



Apoplexy Pulmonary. See Pulmonary Congestion and Edema. 



Apoplexy, Splenic. Bee Anthrax. 



Appetite, Depraved. Bp.e Depraved Appetite. 



Appetite, Loss of. See Anorexia. 



ARTHRITIS. 



1. In horses, traumatic and septic ; 3, in new-born, due to um- 

 bilical infection ; 3. may be variety of acute infection known as 

 acute articular rheumatism ; in this form use salicylic acid or 

 salicylates, 495 ; salol, 495 ; externally, methyl salicylate, 497 ; 

 Fodium bicarbonate, 135 ; iodine ointment, 340 ; later stages, salicy- 

 lates and potassium iodide, 250; diet, milk for small, and gruels 

 and mashes for large patients in acute stage. 3. Cleanliness of the 

 navel and premises may prevent this form ; apply antiseptics and 

 cover the navel. In traumatic arthritis, cold irrigations, 710 ; 



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