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Metritis, Acute and Chronic. See also Puerperal Fever or 

 Septic MeU-itis. 



Examine uterus with speculum. Treatment purely local and takes 

 time and money. Animal may recover spontaneously at pasture. 

 Otherwise, irrigate with 3 per cent, lysol solution daily. Apply 

 Churchill's tine, iodine to lacerations of cervix and eroded os; or 

 light application of actual cautery. Also dilate cervix and curette 

 uterus, followed by loose packing with iodoform gauze for a few 

 days. Afterwards daily lysol irrigations. 



Muscular Rheumatism. 



AVarm covering. Give a purge: H., physic ball, 568; C, Glauber's 

 salts, 163; D., two compound cathartic pills, 210. Rest of aflFected 

 parts. Give sodium salicylate, 495, and potassium iodide, 249, iri 

 combination, to dogs in capsules, large animals in solution, thrice 

 daily. Or the iodide may be reserved for subacute and chronic 

 cases. Externally, rub into affected part methyl salicylate, 497, or 

 chloroform liniment, 296. Heat is also very efScacious; hot wet 

 blankets covered with rubber sheet and dry blanket, or apply dry 

 blanlcet and iron over it with hot flat iron. Puncture of affected 

 muscles with sterile needles, or injection of sterile water, sometimes 

 effective. Shoulder lameness — Inject veratrine into muscle (H., gr. 

 3-4 to 1 1-2 in alcohol, m.xxx), followed by walking exercise. 

 Chronic cases — Tonic treatment; cod liver oil, 658; massage with 

 liniment, moderate exercise and attention to hygiene. 



Myalgia, Myositis. See Muscular Rheumatism. 



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Na^sal Catarrh or Rhinitis, Chronic. Gleet (In the Horse). 

 Use cleansing, antiseptic, astringent solutions by atomizer, or 

 fountain syringe and rubber tube in nostrils, by trephining cham- 

 bers above, or by stomach tube introduced through posterior • nasal 

 openings. Cleansing and antiseptic solution, sodium bicarbonate and 

 biborate (of each, 5iiss to Oi). Astringents, cupric sulphate or 

 alum (1-2 per cent) ; tannic acid or zinc sulphate (1-2 per cent, 

 solution). Solutions changed each two weeks. Outdoor life, feed- 

 ing off ground; good food; bitters and iron. Isolation, unless 

 glanders can be surely excluded. Gleet very often secondary and 

 due to glanders, catarrh of guttural pouches, tumors, parasites, 

 abscess, etc. Employ a rhinoscope and inject mallein or use agglu- 

 tination test. Discharge from one nostril is not usually simple 

 gleet. 



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