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Cattle: — Epsom salts, 163; calomel, 218; linseed oil, 570; croton 

 oil, 580 ; gamboge, 585. 



Foals and Calves: — Carron oil, 570; Gregory's powder, 576. 



Puppies: — Suppositories, soap or glycerine, 607 ; small doses of 

 castor oil ( Z i-iv) or calomel (gr. i) . 



Birds: — Fowl, calomel, gr. ion food; castor oil, 3 i ; cold enemata, 

 tine, rhei, 576; rhubarb (gr. iii-vii) , or senna, 579 (gr. xv-xx) , in pill. 

 Small birds, empty rectum with bulb-tipped probe and oil. Give 

 artificial Carlsbad salts, 137, in drinking water (gr. iiss to § i). 



Other agents include the following : Buckthorn, 573 ; jalap, 584 ; 

 colocynth, 587 ; elaterin, 587 ; podophyllin, 589 ; arecoline, 617: ox 

 gall, 6 j5 ; pilocarpine, 444 ; veratrine, 471 ; strychnine, 410 ; glyce- 

 rin, 608 ; belladonna, 386, 410 ; hyosoyamus, 390]; sulphur, 258 ; 

 myrrh, 525 ; asafetida, 538. 



CONVALESENCE. 



Diet, 690 ; fresh air, exercise ; hydrochloric acid, 262 ; pepsin, 

 653 ; bitters, 289 ; strychnine, 410 ; gentian, 554 ; quinine, 489 ; 

 calumba, 558 ; quassia, 556 ; hydrastin, 562 ; iron, 201 ; cod liver oil, 

 658. 



Convulsions, Eclampsia, Epilepsy. 



Remove cause when possible by use of cathartics or emetics in 

 indigestion and overloaded stomach ; by incising gums in teething ; 

 by anthelmintics in worms. In attack, owner may immerse 

 puppy in warm bath ; the veterinarian should give chloroform in- 

 halation, 307, and afterwards administer fluidextract ipecac, Tn,30, 

 and enema. To prevent further attacks in dogs or horses, ad- 

 minister chloral, 3)8, with sodium bromide, 243, thrice daily in 

 water. When fits are recurrent, epilepsy is to be suspected. In 

 this case, give sodium bromide, 243, thrice daily for considerable 

 time; and tine, belladonnas, 373, or chloral, 318, if bromides in- 

 effectual. Or acetanilid, 319, with monobromated camphor, 548, 

 may be prescribed in capsules thrice daily for dogs. In puerperal 

 eclampsia, 368, of bitches, inject morphine under the skin, or 

 employ chloroform inhalation, and an enema of chloral in boiled 

 starch solution. 



Corneal Opacities. 



When recent, apply yellow oxide of mercury ointment to upper 

 lid once daily (gr. i-ii- 3 i) , 214, or calomel, 217, After a year, opacity 

 becomes permanent ; do iridectomy under clear area in cornea. 



Corneal Ulcer. 



Yellow oxide of mercury, as for opacities ; calomel, as for opaci- 

 ties ; or touch ulcer with silver nitrate solution (2-4 per cent.) by 

 means of pointed 'camers hair brush; atropine during treatment, 

 374. In suppurating keratitis, touch yellow infiltrated ar^'a of ulcer 

 with point of knitting needle heated cherry red, after using cocaine. 



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