DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 775 



In eruption, use zinc oxide ointment. 



Diet :— Milk, scraped beef, bovinine, beef juice, strong brotiis, 

 brandy wUii milk and white of egrg. Boiled milk in diarrhea. 



Patients isolated, and when recovered the premises must be cleaned 

 and disinfected, 725. Country air favors recovery. 



DOURINE. See Maladie du Coit. 



Deopsy, Cardiac, Renal, Hepatic. Ascites. 



Increase function of heart, kidneys and liver bv stimulants to these 

 organs, and use purges and diarphoretios. Digitalis, 319 and 452, with 

 squill, 458, are often combined with spirit of nitrous ether, 313, 

 and potassium citrate or acetate, 127. Restrict fluids ; give horse 

 physic ball, 568; cattle: magnesium sulphate, 163, in concentrated 

 solution; dogs: comp. jalap powder ( 3 ss) in capsules three times 

 daily, 583 ; potassium iodide to absorb exudate, 249. 



In Ascites, aspirate dogs just behind navel and bandage belly j 

 cattle : aspirate belly midway between navel and stifle, right side. 



Diet, 690. 



Other remedies are: Caffeine, 400; strophanthus, 455; oil of juniper, 

 541; pilocarpine, 444; calomel, 458; colooynth, 584; elaterin, 586; 

 sugar of milk, 652. 



Withhold salt from the food when there is nephritis. 



See also Hydrothorax. 



Dysentery. 



Common in new- born, especially calves, in which it is usually fatal. 

 Prevent by antiseptic treatment of aborting and parturient cows ; by 

 isolation of patients and disinfection of their discharges ; by segregation 

 of cows about to calve. Treatment of little value in calves. In other 

 animals, give purge, calomel, 318; or magnesium sulphate, 163; or 

 castor oil, 573. Ipecac is a specific, 476, especially Dover's powder. 

 Irrigations of rectum with creolin, 334; or lysol, 335; or silver nitrate, 

 178. Internally, opium, 867; with astringents, as: lead acetate, 175; 

 white oak, 595; catechu, 597; kino, 598; tannic acid, 598; hematoxy- 

 lon, 600. Rest; external warmth; and diet, 668, 669. Antiseptics: 

 naphtalin, 337 ; turpentine, 503. Arsenic, 235. 



Dysentery, Chronic Bacterial, of Cattle. Johne's Disease. 



Treatment is chiefly prophylactic. Isolate and destroy diseased 

 animals. Feces burned or buried deeply. Scrub and scrape fecal con- 

 tamination from barns and apply quicklime to floors and 3 per cent. 

 formalin to walls and whitewash containing the same. Internally, 

 salol, bismuth subnitrate, turpentine, etc., have little but temporary 

 effect, as the disease is fatal. 



Dyspepsia. See Indigestion, 



Dyspnea. See Laryngitis, Broken Wind, Croup, Asthma. 



Pulmonary and Heart Diseases: Nitroglycerin, 313; nitrites, 312; 

 chloroform inhalation, 295; or morphine, 368; in asthma or angina 



In chest diseases, counter-irritation externally, 700. Tracheotomy 

 in mechanical obstruction. Treat causal disease. 



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