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
Divide into 12 pills. One to be given two or three times a day after
food. The dog should be galvanised twice a day for about half an hour
each time. A continuous current battery is best, and a blister should be
applied to the loins, from the two last ribs to the points of the hips,
and from two to four inches wide.[1]
When all four legs are affected, the result of some injured or diseased
condition of the brain, the treatment should be the same as previously
mentioned, except a blister should be applied to each side of the neck,
along the course of the spine, instead of over the loins. The best
blister to use is the liquor epipasticus; the hair, of course, should
first be cut off close, or shaved, and the skin thoroughly washed and
dried, and the blister should be gently rubbed into the skin with a piece
of flannel for about three minutes. If it does not act well, rub a little
red mercurial blister ointment into the parts the next day for a minute.
Care must be taken that the dog does not lick the blisters, as they are
poisonous. Two days later, the parts may be carefully washed and boracic
ointment applied. Benefit is also derived in these cases by having the
muscles of the limbs massaged.
When paralysis is the result of rheumatism—and in these cases it is
generally the back limbs and loins affected—the attack commences with
pain and stiffness across the loins. Give first, after a purge, for a
week or so, suitable medicine for rheumatism, and then later, if the
patient does not improve, treat as for ordinary paralysis. Cases of
paralysis are often tedious, and keep about a long time, but in the
end, unless the spine has been seriously injured by some accident, they
generally recover.
=Paraphymosis=:
_Symptoms_: Dogs, particularly some of the small ones, sometimes get the
penis protruded out of the sheaf, and if the orifice is at all small
it contracts on the protruding part, and it cannot be relieved without
assistance. The part becomes swollen and very painful, and if it is
not noticed soon after happening, the point of the penis becomes much
inflamed and congested.
_Treatment_: A little oil should be poured on the red protruding part,
and the sheath should be taken hold of and pulled forcibly over it.
In some cases it is necessary to apply ice to the protruding part, when
it is very much swollen, before it can be returned.
=Parturient Eclampsia=:
_Symptoms_: This occurs in nervous and excitable bitches two or three
weeks after pupping. The bitch is unable to stand, or does so with great
difficulty. She generally lies on her side, with legs outstretched and
head drawn back, panting violently and frothing at the mouth. The attack,
though very distressing, generally lasts some hours, leaving the bitch
much prostrated; it is seldom attended with fatal results.
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