DISEASES OP THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 793 



on a toothpick. Then flush eye with normal salt solution (3i i-Oi). 

 Fine galvano-cautery may be used instead. In abscess of cornea 

 and pus in anterior chamber, rarely advisable to incise. 



Xaminitis, Hor.sEs and Cattle. 



Horses — Remove shoes, thin horn on soles and place in well- 

 bedded box stall. Let animal stand several hours at a time in hot 

 water (frequently changed) and apply poultice in intervals. Or use 

 cold water foot baths and ice poultices with bran. Diet, 688. Give 

 aconite, 463, or bleed from jugular, 731, or toe in severe cases. 

 Employ enemata and linseed oil, 570, and encourage animal to lie 

 down, or cast or sling in very acute cases. After subsidence of 

 acute inflammation, apply thict:, wide, rocker, bar shoes; exercise 

 in soft, wet ground and apply blister, 703, to coronet. Neurectomy 

 for prolonged lameness. 



In Cattle, same general treatment. Full dose of salts and mus- 

 tard to chest at the beginning. 



^Laryngitis, Acute. 



Chiefly in Horses and Dogs. 



Locally, cold wet compress, 709, applied to throat and covered 

 with oiled silk; or thick coat of antiphlogistine; or ice bag, 706; or 

 turpentine and sweet oil (equal parts) ; or, in severe cases, mustard 

 paste, 517, or fly blister, 645. Steam inhalations with 2 per cent, 

 carbolic acid solution. Internally, tine, aconite, 463, with spirit of 

 nitrous ether, 463, every few hours for fever. Laryngeal cough and 

 spasm relieved by morphine or Dover's powder (horse, 495) and 

 by codeine (dogs, 356). 



iLaryngitis, Chronic. 



Chiefly in Horses and Dogs. 



Locally to throat, wet compresses, antiphlogistine or stimulating 

 turpentine liniment, as above. 



Dogs— Application to larynx of 3 per cent, silver nitrate solution 

 on human applicator, or inhalations of benzoin, 515, and ipecac, 47. 

 Also insuiflation of larynx with bismuth and orthoform equal parts 

 with powder-blower. . ^ u i 



In the horse, injections into the larynx, through the crico-tracheal 

 ligament, with a hollow needle (1-3 per cent, solutions of alum or 

 lead acetate) are most effective. Also give ammonium chloride, 150, 

 and Carlsbad salts, 137, on the feed thrice daily. 



Laryngitis, Membranous. 

 Chiefly in Cattle. 



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