024 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



attack like that previously described. This is also a sympton of tuber- 

 culosis in those cases in which the lymphatic glands lying between 

 the lungs are so enlarged as to press upon and partly occlude the esoph- 

 agus. 



Treatment. — Treatment should be preceded by a moderate dose of 

 purgative medicine: 1 pound of sulphate of magnesia or sulphate of 

 soda (Glauber's salts), half an ounce of powdered Barbados aloes, 1 

 ounce of powdered ginger, 1 pint of molasses. The powder should be 

 stirred up for a few minutes with 2 quarts of luke warm water, then 

 the molasses should be added; and after all the ingredients have been 

 stirred together for about ten minutes, the dose should be adminis- 

 tered. It will generally be necessary after the operation of the pur- 

 gative to give some tonic and antacid preparation to promote diges- 

 tion, which is imperfectly performed in such cases. The following 

 may be used: Powdered gentian, 3 ounces; powdered bicarbonate of 

 potash, 3 ounces; powdered ginger, 3 ounces; powdered capsicum, 1 

 ounce. Mix and divide into twelve powders, one of which should be 

 given three times a day before feeding, shaken up with half a pint of 

 whisky and a pint of water. It is also advantageous in such cases to 

 give two heaped teaspoonfuls of wood charcoal, mixed with the ani- 

 mals feed three times a day. The animal should also go out during 

 the day, as want of exercise favors the continuance of this form of 

 Indigestion. If the dung is hard, the constipation should be overcome 

 by feeding a little flaxseed twice daily or by giving a handful of 

 Glauber's salts in the feed once or twice daily, as may be necessary. 

 Roots, silage, and other succulent feeds are useful in this connection. 

 If tuberculosis is suspected as the cause of the chronic bloating, a 

 skilled veterinarian should be employed to make a diagnosis, using 

 the tuberculin test if necessary. Until it is settled that the cow has 

 not tuberculosis, she should be kept apart from the other members of 

 the herd. 



DISTENTION OF RUMEN, OR PAUNCH, WITH FOOD. 



This form of indigestion is caused by the animal gorging itself 

 with food, and arises more from the animal's voracious appetite than 

 from any defect in the quality of the food supplied to it. The condi- 

 tion is, however, more severe if the food consumed is especially con- 

 centrated or difficult of digestion. In cases of this kind there is com- 

 paratively no great formation of gas, and the gas which is formed is 

 diffused through the stomach instead of accumulating in a layer In 

 its upper part. On pressing the flank with the closed fist the indent 

 of the hand remains for a short time in the flank, as if the rumen wersj 

 filled with a soft, doughy mass. 



This form of indigestion should be treated by stimulants, such as 

 alcohol, wine, or aromatic spirits of ammonia. But if the treatment 

 applied fails and the impacted or overloaded condition of the rumen 

 continues, it may become necessary to make an incision with a sharp, 

 long-bladed knife in the left flank, . commencing at the point where it 



