DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 821 



at night, 708, with bandaging to prevent exudation and swelling of 

 the part. After the acute symptoms abate, alternate hot and cold 

 applications of water— to stimulate circulation— and begin soon 

 with massage and movement of the part and gradually increasing 

 exercise. Keep the part bandaged if possible when not applying 

 treatment. Various liniments may be used to aid massage, as 

 chloroform, 298, or turpentine liniment, 503. Firing and blistering, 

 or simply blistering, and turning out animal to pasture, may secure 

 recovery. Subsequent cicatrization with contraction of tendons and 

 ligaments can not be prevented except in part by early movement 

 of the injured limb. 



Sterility (Sexual). See Barrenness. 



Stomach Staggers. See Indigestion. 



Stomatitis. 



In simple stomatitis, use mel boracis (B. P.) on a swab in the 

 mouth. The food should be liquid or soft. Give potassium chlorate 

 internally, 130. With ulceration, swab out mouth with 1 per cent, 

 lysol solution several times daily and touch the ulcers with 10 per 

 cent, silver nitrate solution, or with tine, of iodine. To the large 

 animals, give a few drams of Glauber's salts and saleratus on the 

 food thrice daily. To sheep, sodium chloride and salicylate in their 

 drinking water (in the proportion of 15 gr. each to the pint). Hy- 

 drogen dioxide is perhaps the most effective antiseptic mouth-wash, 

 120, but more expensive than boric acid. Stomatitis is very preva- 

 lent in the young. Fresh air, cleanly premises and exercise must be 

 given. Nourishing food is a requisite to recovery. Isolate the sick 

 and avoid common use of utensils for eating or drinking. Stoma- 

 titis is a complication of infected umbilicus in calves; gangrenous 

 tissue must be cut away and the navel packed with iodoform and 

 boric acid. 



Strains. See Sprains. 



Strangles in Horses. 



Isolate the sick in roomy, airy box-stall and disinfect the vacated 

 premises: Diet— Gruels, mashes, steamed oats, grass, roots; and 

 milk, eggs and alcohol, if there is anorexia. Apply, and frequently 

 renew, hot flaxseed poultices to the inflamed submaxiUary gland, 

 and open when "ripe." Syringe abscess cavity with hydrogen di- 

 oxide and dress with Peru balsam. Remove induration by a fly 

 blister to the surrounding area, 646. Treat complications as they 

 arise. Tracheotomy is required for obstruction about the larynx. 



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