8o Vetermary Medicine. 



and earthy salts should be added to the ration. Wheat bran, 

 middlings, peas, beans, cotton seed meal, linseed meal, rapecake 

 may be named among available resorts, or in their absence, daily 

 doses of phosphate of lime, and sodium chloride or bicarbonate, or 

 potash salts may be allowed, or even bone dust. 



If imperfect digestion is a manifest factor, sodium chloride, or 

 pota.ssium chloride, calcium phosphate, iron and bitters will serve 

 a good end. In hyperacidity, limewater, chalk, or magnesia may 

 be given. If the digestion is torpid, hydrochloric acid with bit- 

 ters may be resorted to. 



Feser and especially Lemcke strongly reconunend apomorphia. 

 It is used hypodermically in doses of 2 grains for hor.se or cow 

 repeated daily for three days. 



Secondary Symptoms in Wool-eating Lambs. Lambs 

 from two to six weeks old especially such as suck ewes with 

 woolly udders (merino, Cotswold ) first swallow the wool inad- 

 vertently, and then acquire a liking for the .saline matters in the 

 abundant yolk (merino), till finally the accumulating wool balls 

 produce digestive and nervous disorder and a craving for the in- 

 dulgence. Thus the breed must be con.sidered in estimating the 

 symptoms. For the same reason the wool about the hips or else- 

 where .soiled with .salts of the urine or liquid fgeces prove attract- 

 ive to the victim. The proximity of other wool eaters is another 

 cause which starts others to follow the bad example. The 

 general conditions of debility, exhausted .soil, and the ab.sence of 

 alkaline and earthy salts must be borne iu mind. So too with 

 prolonged confinement indoors in winter, the absence of in- 

 vigorating exercise and the restriction of the animals (dams) 

 to food which is deficient in .saline matters. 



Beyond the' mere eating of the wool and the destruction of 

 fleeces, the lambs do not usually suffer seriou.sly. But if the 

 consumption of wool is excessive the accumulating balls of the 

 size of marbles in the stomach, and the blocking of the pylorus 

 and small inte.stine, may give rise to intermittent constipations 

 and diarrhoeas, deranged digestion, muco-enteritis, mucous 



covered stools, lo.ss of condition, emaciation and retarded 

 development. 



Treatment consists fir.st in the securing of a more healthy 

 regimen. This is but one of the evils of the clo.se winter con- 



