DISEASES OP THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 773 



In the young and in nervous debilty : calcium phosphate, 158 

 and phosphorus, 236. ' 



Decubitus. Bed Sores. 



Change position often or use slings ; sufBcient bedding and clean- 

 liness. Alcohol with tannic acid (5 per cent.) to harden skin 

 Ai-istol, 253 ; chlorinated lime, 240. 



Delirium. 



In acute inflammations and injuries of head, ice to poll, 706 ; 

 yeneseotion, 629 ; purges, as for Cerebritis. With exhaustive dis! 

 eases— alcohol, 291; strychnine, 410, Sedatives, if severe, ae 

 morphine ; chloral, 818 ; bromides, 243 



Depraved Appetite. Pica. Licking Habit. 



Cattle— Remove primary digestive disorder ; generous feeding 

 vs^ith plenty of salt ; outdoor existence. Apomorphine, gr. ii hyp(,v 

 dermatically, once a week for 3 injections, 373. 



Calves and Lambs— Calves segregated ; lambs isolated when not 

 sucking ; apomorphine (gr. i) subcutaneously. 



Foals — Keep in stable, give salt by mouth and apomorphine 

 (gr. i-ii) subcutaneously once or twice weekly. 



Diabetes Insipidus. Horses. 



Commonly due to musty or moldy fodder, or symptomatic of 

 other diseases. Change diet, or steam, boil or kibi-dry moldy food ; 

 give physic ball ; place sodium bicarbonate in drinking water to 

 relieve thirst, 4| daily, 138. Lugol's solution, 247, or potassium 

 iodide, most successful remedies. Contract renal vessels witu 

 belladonna, 385 ; gallic acid, 594 ; ergot, 629. Tonics : iron, 201 ; 

 nux vomica, 410 ; arsensic, 225. Restrict water to slight degree. 



Diabetes Mellitus. 



In dogs, restrict diet to cooked meat and fat and broths; avoid 

 liver. Sodium bicarbonate in enormous doses to prevent coma, 13a ; 

 opium, 369 ; Fowler's solution, 226 ; urotropin, 341. 



Diaphragm, Spasm of. Hiccough. Thumps. 



Compound spirit of ether, 295 ; spirit of chloroform, 296. Give 

 purge and use lavage, 739; morphine subcutaaeously, 368, with 

 atropine, 386; inhalation of amyl nitrite, 818, or chloroform, 307. 

 Fomentartohs over diaphragm, traction on tongue. Enema, lauda- 

 num (giv), with sodium bromide (|i), in pint of boiled starch 

 solution. 

 Dogs: — Emetic : Ipecac, 475. 



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