Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
As _vaso-motor_ stimulants have been employed ergot, belladonna, tannic,
sulphuric and hydrochloric acids, oil of turpentine, iron sulphate,
potassium bichromate and chlorate, quinia sulphate, and strychnia
sulphate and arsenate. The value of any one of these is dependent on its
early employment, the slight character of the lesions and the remissions
that so often occur even in severe attacks. None are of much account in
a violent attack at its worst.
In the slighter cases _ergotin_, 5 grains daily in two doses, has been
apparently useful. An objection is that its continued action on the
nerve centres and digestive organs is liable to prove depressing and
injurious. Of the acids, _tannic_ is liable to engender constipation,
locking up the injurious products to which, however, it acts to some
extent as an antiseptic. _Sulphuric_ and _hydrochloric_ acids have a
tonic effect, and the latter is a stomachic under ordinary conditions.
The same may be said of the _iron salts_ and to some extent of _oil of
turpentine_, which have both proved useful in favorable cases. Cadeac
condemns ol. terebinth as calculated to abolish kidney secretions. The
_potash salts_, _bichromate_ and _chlorate_, and _quinia sulphate_ are
decided antiseptics and though the admissible dose would not ensure the
destruction of bacteria, yet, acting in the system, with leucocytes and
leucomaines, they may serve by keeping them in check. The _chlorate of
potash_ is given to the extent of an ounce the first day, and of half an
ounce on succeeding days. The _quinine_ salt is given in half ounce
doses once or twice daily. In combination with bitters they seem to be
of material value. _Nux vomica_ (1 dram) or _strychnia sulphate_ or
_arsenate_ (2 grains) given twice daily has seemed to be among the most
promising agents of this class. As a potent vaso-motor stimulant, a
bitter tonic and stomachic, strychnia has seemed at times to rouse the
vitality and enable the system to throw off the load of poison that
depresses it. The wonderful power of _adrenalin chloride_ as a
vaso-motor stimulant more than warrants its use both locally and
generally. In using any one of these agents, we should not neglect
concurrent attention to the bowels and kidneys, to antisepsis internally
and externally, to hygienic and tonic measures generally.
_Antiseptic agents_ have been given by the alimentary canal, the skin,
the subcutis, and the air passages.
By the _stomach_ the following have proved more or less useful in
checking gastro-intestinal fermentations, and perhaps in hindering
absorption of toxins from the specific lesions on this track: _phenic
acid_, _creolin_, _lysol_, _ichthyol_, _boric acid_, _salicylic acid_,
_sodium salicylate_ and _hyposulphite_, and _calomel_.
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