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to move and keeps looking toward the right side. Below the ribs on right 

 side a hard substance can be felt. Delirium often sets in. 



Treatment. Give a drench consisting of two ounces of ginger and one 

 and one-half pounds of Glauber's salts. Twelve hours after the bowels have 

 moved feed moist mashes or gruels and keep this up for several days at 

 regular intervals. 



To insure bowel movement, give one quart of linseed oil or one quart 

 melted lard after twelve hours. 



A. Rumen or First Stomach. 



B. Recticulum or Second Stomach. 



C. Omasum or Third Stomach. 



D. Abomasum or Fourth Stomach. 



E. Esophagus or Gullet. 



F. Opening from Fourth Stomach to Small Intestines. 



On being swallowed the food passes into the first (A) stomach from the gullet (E). In 

 (A) and (B) a churning motion is kept up which keeps the food passing from stomach 

 to stomach. From (A) the food is returned to the mouth through (E) for rechewing 

 before it is finally passed on to the third and fourth stomachs, and the small intestines. 



Impaction of the Rumen. 



This often happens after heavy meals which remain in the stomach un- 

 digested, often causing temporary paralysis. 



Symptoms. The animal is greatly distressed. It breathes as though it 

 was suffocating. Fever develops. The animal moans frequently. The bowels 

 are bound and the manure is foul smelling. 



