DISEASES OF CATTLE 125 



GARGET 



(Congestion of the Udder) 



Cause : Very common in heavy milkers before or just 

 after calving when the bag is very much enlarged and 

 very sensitive ; exposure to chilling or standing in drafts 

 or even neglected for too long a time in milking. Injuries 

 may also cause Garget. 



Symptoms : The bag is very much enlarged, showing 

 signs of inflammation. The swelling extends well for- 

 ward following the milk veins. The cow has great diffi- 

 culty in walking due to sensitiveness of the bag. When 

 milked for two or three days the swelling disappears 

 after the secretion is fully established, but as a rule is 

 tinged with blood. Sometimes small clots of milk or 

 cheese-like particles are ejected with the milk. 



Treatment: Give a physic consisting of Aloin, two 

 drams ; Pulv. Ginger, three drams. Place in gelatin cap- 

 sule and give with capsule gun : Hyposulphite of Soda, 

 sixteen ounces ; Nitrate of Potassi, four ounces. Mix and 

 make into sixteen powders. Give one powder three times 

 a day in drinking water or place in gelatin capsule and 

 give with capsule gun. Also dissolve Bichloride of Mer- 

 cury, two grains ; Boracic Acid, two drams, in one quart 

 of boiling hot water. When this solution cools to about 

 blood temperature, after stripping all milk fluid or pus 

 from the affected teat or teats, inject with an ordinary 

 bulb injection syringe after placing a teat tube into the 

 end from which the air escapes when the bulb is pressed.. 

 Now, place the end of the syringe retaining the teat tube 

 in the affected teat, the other end place in a bottle or 

 vessel containing the solution and gently press the bulb 

 and inject about a pint of the solution in each affected 

 quarter. Leave the solution in the teat for only fifteen to 

 twenty minutes and milk out thoroughly. Kepeat this 

 treatment two or three times a day. 



For an external application the following ointment has 



