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and other leguminous products, ground oats, beans, peas, linseed 

 cake, rape cake, cotton seed and vetches may be especiall}' named. 

 Even animal food may be availed of, and cases are recorded in 

 which cows have themselves hunted for snails and frogs and de- 

 voured them greedily. The free access to common salt, and a 

 liberal supply of bone meal are helpful. Iron and bitter tonics, 

 (gentian, quinine, salicine, nux, copperas, tincture of iron) and 

 cod liver oil, in pint doses daily, have been found advantageous. 

 Apomorphia has been found especiall}^ valuable in correcting the 

 preverted appetit"^, and stimulating digestion. 



Where it is feasible to move the affected herd from the un- 

 wholesome pasturage or locality to one in which the aliment is 

 rich and the disease unknown, success usually follows the change. 



On poor, uncultivated lands where the disease appears yearl}^, 

 or at short intervals, intensive culture with heavy manuring, and 

 the heavy feeding of the herd on grain products, linseed cake, 

 etc., will often banish the trouble. 



Care should be taken to change the water as well as the food. 



Finally every drain upon the system should be lessened or 

 stopped. The milk may be dried up and the animal should not 

 be bred. Sweet, dry buildings, pure air, sunshine and grooming 

 are important auxilliaries. 



In severe outbreaks, in high conditioned animals, the owner 

 often consults his interest, in sending the victims to the butcher 

 as soon as the affection shows itself and before time has been 

 allowed for the inevitable emaciation and loss. 



Some, on osteo-malacia lands, have profited by changing the 

 entire herd every two years, as the}' become rapidly worn out 

 under successive attacks. 



As local derivatives, oil of turpentine, hot vinegar, tincture of 

 iodine and biniodide of mercury have been employed. Open 

 sores are treated witn antiseptic lotions, creolin, lysol, carbolic 

 acid, iodine lotions, iodoform, etc. 



