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
Attempts have been made to check microbian proliferation by
antiferments, such as quinine, calomel, creolin, phenol, and phenacetin.
The tonic action of quinine specially recommends it but like all bitters
it is obnoxious to a dog with a delicate stomach. Calomel is especially
recommended by Fröhner as a gastric and intestinal antiseptic and its
indirect action on the liver renders it valuable in many cases. Creolin
and carbolic acid exhaled from saturated cloths tend to disinfect the
air passages and give tone to the mucosa. My colleague Dr. P. A. Fish
gave carbolic acid, 2 per cent., and afterward 4 per cent. in normal
salt solution, and in doses of ½ to 1 drachm, subcutem once and twice a
day. In the initial stages, it seemed often to be of great value,
quieting the nervous excitement, improving the general symptoms, and in
some instances apparently cutting short the affection. Trasbot
recommended strong infusion of coffee, and Zippelius sodium chloride,
while others gave ergotin, or better hydrogen peroxide in spray or as a
draught.
_Eliminative treatment._ As in all depressing contagious diseases, we
must favor elimination of the toxins, and in this case without risking
any material encrease of debility. Calomel (7 grs.), sodium salicylate
or benzoate (4 grs.), sodium bicarbonate (7 grs.), potassium iodide (4
grs.), chlorate (7 grs.), or nitrate (7 grs.) may be cited. Digitalis (1
gr.), strophanthus, or caffeine are especially recommended by their
power of encreasing the tone of the heart when that has become weak or
exhausted.
For the _respiratory_ symptoms we may employ the antiseptic inhalations
already named, or, in place of these, iodine or sulphurous acid. The
nervous cough may be met by syrup of poppies, or anise, by morphia, or
codeia. (Recipe: morphinæ hydrochloras 0.1 grams: aquæ amygdal. amar. 10
grams, aquæ distill. 150 grams. M. A teaspoonful three or more times a
day. _Fröhner_). As expectorants, ammonium chloride (5 grs), or acetate,
senega, or apomorphia (⅒ gr.), may be used. In vigorous subjects
ipecacuan (½ to ¾ gr.), or antimonial wine (1 drop). Hydrogen peroxide
in doses of a teaspoonful is often useful. Among counterirritants and
derivatives the warm bath and cold compresses are especially valuable,
or tincture of iodine, or camphorated spirit, or equal parts of aqua
ammonia and olive oil serve a double purpose as furnishing at the same
time an expectorant inhalant.
Special pulmonary complications must be dealt with on general principles
as advised for the special diseases, bearing in mind always the profound
prostration and the need to avoid depressing agents.
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