DISEASES OF CATTLE 109 



Symptoms: Dullness. The animal loses its spirits, 

 so to speak, usually shivers or trembles. When this 

 ceases, the temperature riseslto perhaps 105° or 106° F. 

 The ears and legs grow cold, the nose hot and dry, pulse 

 rapid but firm, breathing short and labored, a short hack- 

 ing cough will be present. Such animals generally re- 

 main standing. 



Other symptoms are constipation, the feces covered 

 with mucus or a slime, great thirst. The eyes are in- 

 flamed and look glassy. The secretions of milk are sup- 

 pressed, if these symptoms develop in milking cows. 



Tkeatment: Place the animal in clean, warm, com- 

 fortable quarters permitting light and as much pure air 

 as possible, but avoid drafts and blanket the animal if 

 chilly. Hand rub the legs and bandage with woolen 

 cloths. Administer Pulv. Carbonate of Ammonia, four 

 ounces; Pulv. Nux Vomica, three ounces; Quinine, two 

 ounces ; Nitrate of Potash, two ounces ; Potassium Iodide, 

 one ounce. Make into twenty-four capsules and give one 

 capsule every four hours with capsule gun. Also apply 

 a paste made from Mustard and cold water over the lung 

 cavities just back of the fore legs. Apply once a day 

 and perhaps one or two applications will be sufficient. 



If this disease is treated when the first symptoms de- 

 velop, a good recovery will follow. Feed easily digested 

 food as hot wheat bran mashes or steamed rolled oats, 

 vegetables and green grass if possible. 



CONTAGIOUS ABORTION 



(Infectious Abortion) 



Cause: Due to a germ (Bacillus Abortus) coming in 

 direct contact with the genital organs of a bull or cow 

 and can be indefinitely transmitted from one herd to an- 

 other by infected bulls serving healthy cows, or infected 

 cows when served transmit the infection to healthy bulls. 

 Healthy cows become infected by their genital organs 



