796 EPITOME OF MODERN IBEATMENT OF 



>ind use black wash, 217, externally. Treat ulcerations with 10 per 

 cent, silver nitrate solution. In the beginning, sloppy food, mashes, 

 green food and milk may be given. Iron and arsenic, 201, 336, are 

 indicated. The treatment must be persisted in for months; three 

 years should elapse before a stallion is safe for service. Vesicular 

 Exanthema may be treated locally, as advised for Dourine, but 

 often disappears spontaneously. 



Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Cattle. 



Prophylaxis: clean, dry, well ventilated stables and removal of 

 infected soil under barns. Isolate sick and disinfect discharges. Give 

 creolin (3ii) twice daily in a pint of milk. Irrigate nose with 3 

 per cent, lysol solution; eyes with saturated boric acid solution. 

 Soft diet with milk and gruels. Enemata or laxatives. 



Mallendehs and Sallenders in the Horse. Squamous Ec- 

 zema. See Eczema. 



Attacks flexures of hock and knee. Soak over night in sweet oil. 

 Wash next morning with green soap and warm water, to re- 

 move scales. Apply oil of cade, liquid tar, or creolin, in alcohol 

 (1-10). Carlsbad salts on the food, 137. Regular exercise. Arsenic 

 and iron, 226. 



Malnutrition. See Dehility. 



Mammitis. Mastitis. Garget. 



At onset, milk every hour and give frequent massage of udder 

 with full dose of Glauber's salts and common salts, 163. Restrict 

 food and water. Attend to abrasions of teats. (See Teats, Fis- 

 sured, etc.) Also, to abort, either use constant hot fomentations, 

 715, or ice bag, and support udder by bandage and wide band about 

 body. The surgeon should cleanse udder thoroughly and irrigate 

 each quarter of the udder with 3 per cent, borax solution through 

 sterile milking tube, in parenchymatous form. After gentle manip- 

 ulation, draw off fluid in IS minutes. If suppuration threatens, 

 apply mercury binodide ointment (10 per cent.) . With interstitial 

 form and surrounding edema, puncture swelling in points by actual 

 cautery, avoiding the veins. Then apply boric acid ointment (10 

 per cent.). For suppuration of udder, incise and drain, and, if 

 severe, amputate in part or altogether. In chronic suppuration, the 

 pus poisons the milk; remove teats with scissors for drainage; fat- 

 ten and kill. Separate milkers in mammitis to avoid infection of 

 sound cows. To prevent mammitis, cleanliness of animal and prem- 

 ises; use of proper stalls, so that teats are not stepped upon; im- 

 mediate treatment of abrasions of the teats. 



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