782 PITOMEE OF MODEBN TREATMENT OF 



in glycerin (1-10), 330, 2 per cent, creolin or lysol, and protect with 

 oil of cade or tar on tow and bandaging. Stimulate by applica- 

 tions of nitric acid, and dress with powdered alum and iodoform, or 

 iodoform and tannin, equal parts. 



Fowl Cholera. 



Treat with acid, hydrochlor. dil. (m. v.), and ferrous sulphate 

 (gr. v), or tannic acid (gr. v), in ounce of peppermint water; dose: 

 Jss. hourly for fowl; 1 teaspoonful for pigeons (Friedberger). 

 Few drops of carbolic acid solution (5 per cent.) under skin. Pre- 

 vent by isolation of well in new quarters. Burn dead and dis- 

 charges. Before reoccupation of premises, hen yard must have sur- 

 face soil removed and replaced by new earth. Thorough cleaning, 

 disinfection and whitewashing of hen house, 725. 



Fractures. 



Examine and set under anesthetic, 307. Large animals, slings. 

 Plaster of Paris or starch bandages, 636, or splints. In non-union, 

 rub ends of bone together; or puncture ends of bones with drill; 

 or suture with silver wire or chromic cat-gut. Compound fractures 

 treated antiseptically through window in plaster of Paris splint. 

 Fracture of jaw, rectal feeding, 695. 



Frost Bite. 



Rub part with snow or cold water to gradually restore warmth — 

 temperature of premises low for first twenty-four hours. In mild 

 cases, rub on turpentine liniment, 502. With vesiculation and des- 

 truction of tissue, treat as advised in burns of second and third 

 degree. Ichthyol, 659 ; glycerite of tannin, 593. 



Gall Stones. Also see Colic. 



To increase flow of bile: sodium bicarbonate, 136; sodium salicy- 

 late, 496; oil of turpentine, 503. Olive oil. Exercise. 



Galls, Wind. See Tenosynovitis. 



Gangrene. 



Apply antiseptics to wound, as compress wet with corrosive sub- 

 limate (1-3,000) while Waiting for line of demarcation to form. 

 Remove dead tissue by knife or actual cautery. Or apply bromine 

 with glass rod, or phenol and glycerine (1-8), to slough. In moist 

 gangrene, apply following paste: phenol (3ss.), povfd. charcoal 

 (3"-). glycerine (Jiv.). Tonics: tine, of ferric chloride, 195, and 

 quinine, 410. 



Gapes (In Poultry). See Parasites. 

 Garget. See Mammitis or Mastitis. 



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