86 Dry Murrain 



The Nux Vomica should be repeated every hour. 



Epsom or Glaubers Salts I14 to 2 pounds. 

 Oil of Turpentine 2 ounces (4 tablespoonsful). 

 Tr. Nux Vomica 1^ drams (li/o teaspoonsful). 

 Water sufficient to dissolve the salts. 



The nbove is for 1000 pound live weight and can be repeated in 

 8 to 12 hours giving turpentine once in 24 hours. 



In drenching the cow do not throw the head higher than necessary 

 as it causes difficult swallowing and may cause strangulation or go to 

 the lungs and cause pneumonia. 



If the paunch becomes distended with gas tliis may be let out with 

 a sterile trocar or knife (see cut page 17, fig. 8.) A trocar excells a 

 knife for it can be left in 24 to 36 hours. A pipe stem may be inserted 

 after the knife is withdrawn to keep the opening of the paunch and the hide 

 in line but be sure it is secure so it can not get into the pa\mcJa. In 

 more obstinate cases an incision or cut 4 to 5 inches long is made high 

 up in the paunch but parallel with the ribs and two-thirds of the con- 

 tents of the paunch (no more) is removed. While doing this have an 

 attendant hold the paunch and skin together so no food can fall between 

 the paunch and the skin. After the food is removed wash the edges 

 of the paunch with a rag moistened in a five per cent carbolic acid 

 water solution (1/4 pt- to 1/4 gal. water.) Then sew the outside edges of 

 the paunch together by turning the edges or lips of the wound inward. 

 No edges of the paunch will heal but the outside ones. Then sew up the 

 skin in the ordinary way. Make the stitches II/2 to 2 inches apart out of 

 sterile cat gut thread or severa' strands of well waxed cobbler's shoe 

 thread. 



DRY MURRAIN ^ 



{''^Impaction of the Third Stomach"), {''Acute Gastro, Intestinal ' 



Catarrh"), {"Gastro Enterites") , 



According to the more recent views of most men who have made 

 this disease a study it can only be properly called by the last two names. 

 They form that conclusion because dry munviin i§ very lare except that 



