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DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



The animal should have plenty of fresh air and the food should con- 

 tain much fat. Dogs should receive milk and considerable cream 

 with oatmeal or bread, and also strong broths, with meat once 

 daily. Iron is also essential in most cases. One pill of ferrous 

 carbonate (each gr. v), or Blaud's pill, should be given thrice daily 

 to dogs. Fowler's solution of arsenic appears to have a most bene- 

 ficial action in chorea. It may be given in the drinking water to 

 dogs or put on the feed for horses (liquor potassii arsenitis, H., 

 ^ss; D., HXii-v three times daily). Sometimes it is well to grad- 

 ually increase each dose for dogs I minim until as much as 

 30 minims are given daily. Puffiness of the eyes, colic and diarrhea 

 signify that no more arsenic will be tolerated. After giving arsenic 

 three weeks it is well to omit the drug for a day or two. When the 

 movements are severe some nervous sedative must be used. To 

 dogs may be administered chloral, gr. v, with sodium bromide, 

 gr. xx to xxx, thrice daily, and 5 drops of laudanum may be added 

 if necessary to procure rest and sleep. For the horse, §ss each of 

 chloral and sodium bromide, with 3i of fluidextract of belladonna, 

 may be prescribed in solution twice daily. 



When arthritis precedes or is associated with chorea, sodium 

 salicylate is indicated (H., 3ii-iv; D., gr. x-xv). The wet pack 

 will sometimes afford relief from chorea, i. e., the application of a 

 blanket wrung out in warm water and covered by a rubber sheet 

 and dry blanket. Any source of peripheral irritation — worms, 

 indigestion, etc. — must be removed. 



Coennrosis — Sturdy — Gid — Turn-Sick — Staggers. 



This disease attacks sheep between the ages of 3 and 18 months 

 and, less frequently, cattle up to the 4th or 5th year. It is due to 

 the encysting in the brain of the embryo (Coenurus cerebralis) of 

 the tape worm of dogs (Taenia coenurus). The dogs, in their 

 turn, get tape worm from eating brains of cattle or sheep containing 

 the tapeworm embryo. Dogs pass the eggs or embryos in their 



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