The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dogSewell, Alfred Joseph
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The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dog
Sewell, Alfred Joseph
Dogs -- Diseases -- Dictionaries
When the condition is the result of some disease affecting the lungs,
suitable remedies for this must be administered; or if the result
of an offensive discharge from the nose, a dessertspoonful to two
tablespoonfuls[1] of the following lotion should be syringed up each
nostril once or twice a day:—
_Recipe_:
Chinosol, 6 grains.
Water to 8 ounces.
Mix.
=Balanitis=:
_Symptoms_: Purulent discharges from prepuce.
_Treatment_: After thoroughly cleaning prepuce out with tepid water
pumped into sac with syringe, syringe twice a day into the passage from
one to four[1] tablespoonfuls following lotion:—
_Recipe_:
Chinosol, 6 grains.
Water to 8 ounces.
Mix.
Sometimes this complaint is very obstinate. In such cases the base of the
penis should be exposed and painted with a four per cent. solution of
nitrate silver. Repeat twice a week.
=Baldness=:
_See_ ALOPECIA.
=Bed-sores=:
_Symptoms_: Dogs, after severe illness, when they have become very thin,
often have large, unhealthy-looking, offensive-smelling wounds, or ulcers
form on the hips, points of the buttocks, shoulder, and other parts.
_Treatment_: Well foment and thoroughly clean parts with a warm saturated
solution of boracic acid or Pearson’s fluid diluted sixty times with
warm water two or three times daily. Gently dry and then freely dust
over with powdered boracic acid or amyloform powder. Take pressure off
wound by encircling it with a ring of thick felt fixed with some adhesive
material. In obstinate cases powdered iodoform may be used to dust
(sparingly) over wound instead of boracic.
_Baths_: A tepid bath should register about 90 deg. F., a warm bath
100 deg. F. A soothing bath for an irritable and red skin can be made
by adding to three gallons of tepid water, one ounce of borax, eight
tablespoonfuls of fine oatmeal, in which the dog should be immersed for
ten or fifteen minutes, and repeated two or three times a week. When the
dog is dirty he may be cleaned whilst in the bath by rubbing the yolks of
three or four eggs into the skin and coat, and then rinsing off with the
oatmeal water.
A suitable bath for the treatment of eczema and to destroy insects
on the skin, may be made by adding three tablespoonfuls of Pearson’s
disinfectant fluid to a gallon of tepid water.
_Sulphur Baths_: A valuable remedy for skin diseases. Are made by
dissolving one ounce of sulphurated potash in a pail of tepid water, in
which the dog may be immersed for ten minutes.
=Biliousness=:
_Symptoms_: Severe vomiting, great thirst, occasionally diarrhœa, refusal
of food. In bad cases the skin, eyes, and mouth turn yellowish.
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