DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 767 



Capped Elbow, Hock, Knee. 



Treatment as for bursitis (see Bursitis) in acute sta2;e ; in bur- 

 sitis (of perforatus) or capped hock, apply high-heeled shoe ; in 

 capped elbow, prevent increase of trouble by use of heel or ring 

 pad; when large amount of indm-ation has formed it must be 

 excised. 



Catarrp. See Coryza, Rhinitis, Acute. 

 Catarrh, Chronic. 



Symptomatic of chronic rhinitis, disease of accessory sinus and 

 guttural pouches, glanders, carious teeth and new gi-owth ; treat- 

 ment mainly surgical— trephining, drainage and irrigation of 

 maxillary sinus; hyovertebrotomy in disease of the guttural 

 pouches. 

 Catarrhal Fever. See Malignant Catarrhal Fever of Cattle. 

 Cerebral Anemia. 



Shown by fainting (syncope) . See Syncope. 

 ■ Cerebral Hemorrhage. See Apojjlexy, Cwebral. 

 Cerebral nYP-^rtEMiA. 



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

 veratrum, 467. Blustard paste to legs and bandage. Warm cover- 

 ing ; croton oil, 583 ; dark, quiet quarters ; if swallowing possible, 

 gruels and mashes. 

 Cerebritis. See Encephalitis. 



Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. 



Chiefly enzootic and epizootic in horses and sheep. See also En- 

 cephalitis for general treatment. Quiet, dark, cool quarters ; slings 

 for horses if animal cannot stand. Physio ball with calomel for 

 horse, 568 ; or barium chloride intravenously if the horse cannot 

 swallow, 159; ice to head, 706; ergot, 385, 629; atropine, 385; strych- 

 nine, 409 ; cantharldes, 645 ; catheterize ; avoid moldy food and 

 stagnant water ; secure food from other regions ; dry stable ; dis- 

 infect quarters after occupancy, 735. 



Choking. 



In Cattle : give olive oil by the mouth and try to push foreign 

 body upward in gullet with one hand externally, while the other 

 is in the mouth. ' This failing, pass probang or do oesophagotomy. 

 Severe tympanites demands massage of left flank or passage of 

 stomach tube ; if this ineffective, puncture most prominent point 

 in left flank between last rib and angle of the haunch. 



In Horses, if foreign body may not be removed by the hand in the 

 pharynx, pass probang. 



Cholera. See Fowl Cholera and Hog Cholera. 



Chorea. 



Occurs in dogs often after distemper or from indigestion or irri- 

 tation of worms. In distemper, an outdoor life in the country, and 

 diet with much fat and proteids— as b.-ead or oatmeal with cream, 



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