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three hours until the twentieth hour after injection, or until 4 or 6 in the after- 

 noon. If the temperature shows no tendency to rise, the test may cease If there 

 is a rise of two or more degrees Fahrenheit above the highest temperature of 

 the preceding day, providing the temperature exceeds 103-8 degrees F., it should 

 be taken as an indication of tuberculosis. 



Vaginal Rupture or Hernia. 



This often happens during pregnancy from chronic relaxation of the vaginal 

 walls, or lying in stalls that are higher in front than behind. 



Symptoms. The protrusion is smooth and of a rounded form. If it covers 

 both sides of the canal it is double, with a passage between. 



Treatment. Sometimes remedied by raising the hind part of the stall 

 higher than the front part. A home-made truss may be applied and worn until 

 the period of calving approaches. 



Warts. 



A hard, dense clublike growth on the skin. 



Treatment. They may be removed with the scissors, or ligatured by 

 means of a horse hair or rubber band. Burn the roots with tincture of iron, lunar 

 caustic or glacial acetic acid. Never use acid near the mouth or eyes. Give young 

 cattle Fowler's solution of arsenic, one tablespoonf ul twice each day for a calf six 

 months old. 



Yellows Jaundice. 



It may arise from the presence of gallstones or parasites in the biliary ducts. 

 These close up the ducts and the bile, which then passes into the intestines, 

 may be absorbed and cause the yellow staining of jaundice. This happens 

 when there is an inactive condition of bowels as in constipation. A swollen 

 condition of the mucous membrane of the small intestine may also cause the 

 disease. 



Symptoms. The appetite is poor; the animal drinks very little; the white 

 of eyes and lining of mouth are yellow, the urine is yellow or brown ; animal lies 

 down and moans when it moves ; it staggers when it walks. Pressure on the 

 short ribs on the right side produces pain. 



Treatment. Move the bowels by giving one pound of sulphate of soda, 

 one pint of molasses and one quart of warm water. Follow this with a heaping 

 tablespoonf ul of artificial Carlsbad salt in the feed three times daily. Give injec- 

 tions of warm soapy water. Give laxative diet like coarse bran mash, pulped 

 roots and grass or hay in moderate quantities. 



