250 THE VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



Spirits of Turpentine 2 ounces, or 8 tablespoonfuls. 



Raw Linseed Oil 1 pint. 



Common Soda 1 tablespoonf id. 



Mix and give as a drench, and if the animal does not get 



relief in one hour and a half give 



Epsom Salts 1 pound. 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre 2 ounces, or 8 tablespoonfuls. 



Common Soda 2 tablespoonfuls. 



Dissolve in a quart of luke warm water and give as a drench, 



after this give the following drench every hour until the animal 



gets relief: 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre 1 ounce or 4 tablespoonfuls. 



Common Soda 2 tablespoonfuls. 



Apply plenty of heat to the body by means of blankets, and 

 hot salt over the kidneys. The after treatment is to feed light, 

 give luke warm water to drink and principally mashes to eat for a 

 few days, so as to allow the stomach to have a rest. Where the 

 animal is very much bloated and in danger of its life, perform the 

 operation of tapping. The way this is done is to cut a small hole 

 in the skin on the left side, midway between the point of the hip 

 bone and the last rib, and about four inches down from the back 

 bone. After the hole is cut in the skin take a trocar and cannula 

 and run them downwards and inwards, then pull out the trocar 

 and leave the cannula in, which lets the gas come spouting out of 

 the cannula ; leave the cannula in for an hour or so until the bloat- 

 ing is all gone down, then pull it out and let the hole heal up 

 itself. A trocar and cannula can be got at a wholesale drug store 

 from 50 cents to 75 cents, and is a very valuable thing to have on 

 hand. If you have not one of these instruments take a sharp 

 penknife and stick it in the same place as you did the trocar and 

 cannula. 



IMPACTION OF THE RUMEN, OR PAUNCH, WITH FOOD. 



This is when the rumen, or paunch, gets full of food and is 

 unable to work it out. 



Causes. — From feeding on poor food, such as straw and such 

 like, and the animal takes a large feed of it, and on account of 

 the walls of the stomach being weak it is unable to work the food out 

 of it as it should, or from a large feed of over-ripe grass, or from 

 the animal getting loose and getting a large feed of corn, bran, 

 oats, wheat or other grain, or from a large feed of any kind of food 

 the animal is not used to. It is also caused by feeding fattening 

 cattle too heavy. 



