DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 809 



to dogs, powd. squills and digitalis (aa gr. i), in pill with calomel, 

 (gr. ss), three times daily. Use wet compress about chest contin- 

 uously, 708, and applications of mustard occasionally. Give dry 

 diet with water reduced to minimum. With large or persistent effu- 

 sion, puncture the chest. In the horse, in the. 8th and 9th intercostal 

 spaces at the anterior margin of the rib and near the lower border 

 of the lung, shave hair and use strict asepsis, 736. After punc- 

 ture, or in the later stages, employ potassium iodide, 249; and give 

 tine, ferric chloride, 195, with gentian or nux vomica on the feed, 

 554, 410. Also give to larger animals nourishing diet with milk, 

 eggs, and whiskey; to dogs— milk, bo^ninine and meat juice. In 

 Empyema or Purulent Pleurisy, the chest wall must be incised and 

 often a portion of two or more ribs resected; all adhesions to 

 pleurae broken under partial anesthesia; and wound closed, save 

 for drainage. Irrigation of the chest is not desirable except in case 

 of fetid discharge. 



Pneumonia, Croupous, and Broncho-Pneumonia. 



At the onset in rare cases with great dyspnea and full, bounding 

 pulse, venesection, 729. Tincture of aconite, 463, in repeated doses 

 every two hours, is more often useful in the beginning, to reduce 

 the frequency of the pulse, except in influenza and astlienic condi- 

 tions. An abundance of fresh cold air to stimulate the respiratory 

 centers is of great import. In the horse, bandage the legs after 

 rubbing mustard paste on them. For large animals, the diet should 

 include hay, grain, roots, mashes, and, if animals do not eat well, 

 eggs and milk; for dogs — milk, bovinine, broths, meat juice and a 

 little meat. In the stage of hepatization, high fever (104.5 deg. F.) 

 phenacetin (3iii) with caffeine (3i) may be given in a single dose. 

 Usually, however, cold enemata, cold air, and cold compresses on the 

 chest, changed frequently, will be safer arid more ejfBicient. Weak- 

 ness of the pulse calls for digitalis, 451, strychnine, 408, camphor, 

 550, ammonium carbonate, 149, singly, in alternation or combination, 

 and repeated every few hours. The action of the kidneys is fav- 

 ored by spirit of nitrous ether, 313. Keep the bowels active by 

 enemata or with oil by the mouth. AV'ith the approach of crisis, 

 stimulants are especially indicated, but shouid not be used until 

 w,eakening of the pulse demands them. With overloading of the 

 right heart and jugular pulse, employ venesection, 729. During 

 resolution administer expectorants, as ammonium chloride and 

 carbonate in combination, 149, 150, particularly in broncho-pneu- 

 monia, and in this disease nutritious feeding is urgently demanded. 

 In delayed resolution, give potassium iodide twice daily, 249. In 

 convalesence, appetite and digestion are stimulated by whiskey with 

 tine, of gentian and nux vomica, 554, 409. 



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