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pain ; the animal eats little or nothing, and can not 

 walk or stand up without pain, constantly stumbling. 

 If the disease is acute there is high fever, with in- 

 creased heat of body and accelerated pulse ; the horns 

 and ears are alternately hot and cold ; the milk is 

 yellowish and bitter, portions of the skin are denuded 

 of hair ; the eyes, mouth, gums, and tongue (which 

 are covered with thick mucus), the nose and teats 

 are yellow ; the urine is of deep yellow color; and 

 there is sometimes a dry and painful cough. In 

 chronic hepatitis the fever is considerable or want- 

 ing altogether, but the yellow tint is more marked 

 and general ; the milk equally yellow arid bitter, soon 

 forms a caseous mass, from which a yellow serum 

 separates; the right side of the body seems tense 

 and swollen ; the intestines do not empty themselves, 

 or the scanty ejections resemble putty or clay. The 

 acute form lasts from eight to fifteen days, and the 

 chronic many months. 



TREATMENT. In the more acute form, attended 

 with heat and fever, the SPECIFIC for FEVER, A A, 

 should be given ; a dose of twenty drops four times 

 per day. 



In the chronic form the SPECIFIC, A A, may be 

 given each morning, and that for INDIGESTION J J, 

 each evening, twenty drops, which will usually be 

 found sufficient. 



