DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 799 



Navicular Disease (in Horse). 



In acute cases remove shoes and use foot bath of hot or cold 

 water, for hours at a time, with flaxseed poultice each night. Give 

 green food, mashes and hay. Prescribe a physic ball. When heat 

 and tenderness in foot subsides, apply fly blister about coronet after 

 clipping hair, 645. Shoe with rubber pad (shoe thiclc at heels and 

 thin at toe), after a few weeks of rest. If lameness persists, plantar 

 neurectomy may be done in animals with good feet and limbs. 



Nephritis, Acute. (In Horses, Cattle and Dogs.) 



Prophylaxis — In acute infections, avoid draughts, and use warm 

 covering for patients; enforce rest, secure activity of bowels and 

 skin and give abstemious diet. In acute nephritis, withhold all food 

 and drink for the first few days. Diet — D., milk; large animals, 

 mashes, green food and milk, after starving period. Give aloes ball 

 (horse), 568, Glauber's salts, 136, to cattle; co. jalap powder to 

 dogs (3i) at onset. Hot blankets over whole body and mustard paste 

 over loins. Pilocarpine, 444, under skin in a single dose, with strych- 

 nine, 403. With marked hematuria, fluid extract ergot thrice daily, 639. 

 In later stages, as a diuretic, tine, digitalis, 453, with potassium 

 citrate, 137. In convalesence, tine, ferric chloride, 301. Uremia is com- 

 bated by cathartics and venesection, 729; and convulsions by chloral 

 hydrate, 318, chloroform inhalation, 307, and morphine under the 

 skin. 



Nephritis, Chronic. (All Animals.) 



Tine, chloride of iron, 195, and sweet spirit of nitre, 313, thrice 

 daily. In dropsy, see Dropsy. AVithhold common salt from the 

 food. Protect animal from exposure to cold. In dogs, chiefly milk 

 diet. In Uremia, treat as recommended for Acute Nephritis. 



Nephritis, Suppurative. Pyelo-Nephritis. Pyelitis. 



Seen in all animals; often in Cows and Mares following septic 

 parturient states. In Cattle it is often best to fatten and slaughter. 

 Secure drinking of large amounts of water by placing an abund- 

 ance of salt upon food. In early stage, spirit of nitrous ether, 313, 

 and potassium acetate, 125, thrice daily. When urine alkaline, jive 

 sodium benzoate, 515, to large animals; to small animals, give 

 urotropin, 341, or salol, 495, and boric acid, 375, as urinary anti- 

 septics. In chronic conditions in dogs, give sandalwood oil in cap- 

 sules (m.x). In large animals in chronic pyelitis, give fluidextract 

 buchu, 541. Accompanying anemia is treated with strychnine, 408, 

 and tine, of ferric chloride, 195, on the tongue. Isolation of pa- 

 tients is desirable to prevent infection of parturient animals. 



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