PREVENTION, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT II3 



Treatment. — The treatment consists first in transporting the 

 patient in the shortest space to the stable, where he should be sup- 

 ported at once in slings in a box stall. The bladder must be emptied 

 by pressure on the bladder, through the rectum,, orby catheter. 



Further therapeutics are directed to rid the blood of toxic 

 products. This may be accomplished by rapid purgation, by ex- 

 citing the skin and kidney actively, and, most rapidly, by bleeding 

 followed by intravenous saline infusions. Barium chloride (gm. 

 i-ii in 3i-ii of water) may be given intravenously; or gn i-ii 

 of eserine sulphate may be injected under the skin to induce 

 purgation. The action of the skin is excited by the use of hot 

 blankets. The renal function is stimulated by supplying only 

 sloppy food and by causing warm, normal salt solution (one level 

 teaspoonful of salt to the pint of water) to flow from a slight 

 elevation in a small stream into the rectum so that it may be 

 absorbed. 



Bleeding (p. 283) is especially indicated when the respiration 

 is labored. In strong, full-sized animals, 4 to 6 quarts may be 

 removed, and this amount of blood replaced by normal, sterile, salt 

 solution (p. 287). 



Cerebral symptoms only follow from nephritis consequent upon 

 the effects of the toxic products upon the kidneys. The urine often 

 contains many casts. Sedatives, as chloral or morphine, may be 

 used to quiet restlessness. If there is heart weakness, give strych- 

 nine (gr. i to ii) under the skin. 



The food should consist of bran mashes, green food, carrots 

 and a little hay. 



The disease may be averted by working or exercising animals 

 every day and by giving only bran mash, hay, roots, etc., on days 

 when the animal it not at work. 



Hemoglobinuria of Cattle. 



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