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he g-ets a very haggard look on his face, as if in extreme agony. 

 After a few hours he is a pitying sight to see. If you sound his 

 bowels at this stage there is not the slightest movement to be 

 heard, only a jerking and trembling all through his insides. He 

 begins to breathe heavy, and his ears and legs have a cold, clammy 

 feeling. He keeps on in very great pain, lying down, getting up, 

 and walking around his box, and, if seen to make water, it will be 

 red and bloody looking, and if there is any passage from the bowels, 

 it will be mostly slime. If he does not get relief in the course ot 

 eight or ten hours, mortification then sets in, and ' the animal 

 becomes quiet and easy, but he still keeps sweating and breathing 

 heavy, and in some cases will try to eat and once in a while he 

 will be noticed to walk around his box. In this stage he does not 

 lie down. The surface of his body, his ears, his nose, his lips and 

 legs get colder and have a death-like feeling. If you take his 

 pulse now, it will be up to 100 beats per minute, and so weak you 

 can hardly feel it, showing that his heart is just fluttering, 

 and that was all ; the haggard look on his face becomes more 

 marked ; he will be noticed to strain a few times, as if trying to 

 pass something, but nothing comes. He will keep on his feet as 

 long as he can, but will finally stagger, fall and die. This disease 

 generally runs a course of from 10 to 15 hours, but in some cases 

 we have known them to live as long as two or three days, where 

 there was not much of the bowels affected. 



Treatment. — This disease, if taken as soon as the animal is 

 noticed sick, may be sometimes cured, but the treatment must be 

 quick and careful, for, if the disease once gets a couple of hours 

 the start, it is then a hopeless case. Give the following : 



Tincture of Laudanum 2 ounces or 8 tablespoonfuls. 



Fleming's Tincture ot Aconite 10 to 15 drops. 



Common Soda 1 tablespoon! ul. 



Ginger 1 



Mix in a pint of luke warm water, and give as a drench. 

 This drench is to relieve the pain and try and check the inflam- 

 mation. This drench may be repeated every hour until the animal 

 gets relief. Apply lots of heat to the body in the form of large 

 woolen blankets, wrung out of hot water and held up to the belly, 

 and half pail of hot salt in a grain bag to the back. In every case, 

 after you are through using the hot blankets, apply a mustard 

 plaster, consisting cf : 



Mustard h pound. 



Vinegar Enough to make it like paste. 



