General Management in Disease 



angry looking sores are formed, which sometimes 

 lead to a septic form of garget. 



Dress with Peruvian Balsam Ointment, or Boro- 

 glycerine. 



Absolute cleanliness needful. 



Teats Impervious 



Sometimes the duct of the teat becomes closed. 

 If so this will require surgical measures for relief. 

 The passage of the teat syphon requires great 

 care, otherwise more harm than good will be done. 



Tetanus (see Lock-jaw) 



Tuberculosis (Consumption) 



Tuberculosis, commonly known under the title 

 of grapes, ulcers, etc., is an exceedingly common 

 disease in cattle and poultry, but occurs in other 

 animals, such as the horse, dog and cat, though less 

 frequently. Probably fully 30 per cent, of cattle 

 are affected with it. It is a specific, infectious dis- 

 ease, due to Koch's bacillus, and its presence in cattle 

 constitutes one of the most serious drawbacks, not 

 only from a butcher's point of view, but also from 

 a dairyman's. It assumes acute and chronic forms, 

 but chronic tuberculosis may at any time become 

 acute ; and, when it does so, the animal rapidly 

 succumbs. In animals it is usually in the chronic 

 form. Many instances have been given of poultry 



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