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SCOORING ROT; OR ROT. 



This is a very prevalent disease in cold wet lands. It 

 is an inflammation of the large inestines. 



SYMPTOMS. Painful attempts to void dung ; which is 

 thin, offensive and slimy. The beast is in pain, and rest- 

 less ; a rumbling noise is heard inside ; the animal gets 

 thin. By and by the dewlap hangs down flabbily ; the 

 dung is very liquid and offensive, and appears full of 

 bubbles ; the hair is wiry and sticks up ; much fever ; 

 pulse quick, eyes inflamed and dull. 



TREATMENT. House the beast at once. Keep on dry 

 food. If poor and weak, a thick gruel should be given 

 three times a day made of oats, barley and beans, ground, 

 with a little linseed cake added. Bleeding must be re- 

 sorted to, proportioned to the feverish symptoms. Now 

 give: 



Epsom salts, one pound. 



Powdered caraway seeds, half an ounce : in a quart of 

 warm gruel. 



In a few hours give the following: 



Prepared chalk, two ounces. 



Powdered oak bark, one ounce. 



Opium, two scruples. 



Powdered ginger, two drachms ; in a quart of warm 

 gruel. 



If the disease does not seem better, the above may be 

 used once or twice a day for three days ; if it then con- 

 tinues bad, give the following drink twice in twenty-four 

 hours, for a week : 



Mutton suet, one pound. 



New milk, two quarts. 



Boil them together till the suet is dissolved, then add 



Powdered opium, half a drachm 



Powdered ginger, one drachm. 



