150 Veterinary Medicine. 



Filliatre obtained excellent resnlts in calves, with a solution of 

 tar 150 grams in 6 litres boiling water, given in the dose of yi 

 litre ever}' half hour. It may also be used as an enema. The 

 diarrhoea is promptly checked, and tlie tar water may then be re- 

 stricted to % litre mixed with the milk of the next two days. 

 One-tenth of the dose may be given to lambs. 



Among other antiseptics in use may be named salicylic acid and 

 tannin, salol, boric acid, betol, diaphthol, bruzonaphthol, salicylate 

 of bismuth, creolin, naphthalin, and lactic acid. 



When icteric membranes, white discharges and extreme foetor 

 indicate hepatic disorder, calomel i part and chalk 12 parts may 

 be resorted to three or four times a day (foal or calf 6 grs., lamb 

 I gr.). 



Among the carminatives may be named anise, fennel, dill, cin- 

 namon, and chamomile. Beside their stimulant action these are 

 all more or less antiseptic. 



In addition to the boiling of the milk, and in certain cases as a 

 temporary substitute, may be used sterilized mucilaginous agents, 

 gum arable, flax seed, and slippery elm. 



ACUTE GASTRIC INDIGESTION IN SOLIPEDS. TYM- 

 PANITIC STOMACH. 



Definition. Causes : overloading, lessened secretion, mastication or in- 

 salivation, frosted food, fermenting food, appetizing food, cooked food, de- 

 bility, disease, starvation, overwork, fatigue, violent exertion after a meal, 

 anaemia, parasitism, injury to vagi or their centres, iced water, wading or 

 swimming in iced water, food with excess of proteids, drink after grain, 

 alkaline waters. Symptoms : in slight cases, in severe, violent colic, weari- 

 ness, pinched countenance, acid mouth, bloating of abdomen, anorexia, 

 dysphagia, no rumbling of bowels, no faeces, tries to eructate, dullness, 

 stupor, coma, vomiting. Rupture of stomach. Recover}-. Lesions : over- 

 distended stomach, ruptured peritoneal hemorrhage, ruptured diaphragm, 

 small bloodless liver and spleen. Diagnosis. Treatment : Aromatics, stim- 

 ulants, antiferments, laxatives, stinuilants of peristalsis, exercise, friction, 

 electricity, chloral hydrate, piincture of stomach and colon, probang, 

 stomach pump, dieting, tonics. 



Definition . Suspension of the normal ftinctions — motor and 

 secretory — of the stomach and the supervention of fermentation 

 in its contents. 



