438 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOB, 



What to do. — Give the following recipe ; 



No. 66. 1 Drachm iodide of potash, 



1 Drachui powdered uux vomica, 

 1 Drachm powdered fCBnugi-eel£ seed. 

 Mix. 



Give as one dose in a bran mash, and repeat it morning and night, for 

 three or four weeks. Feed on soft food, and give gentle exercise. 

 m. Atrophy of the Heart. 



This is a shrinking and wasting away of the substance of the heart. 

 The walls become soft and flabby, and fail to perform the work in a 

 healthy manner. 



How to know it. — The pulse will be weak and irregular — often missing 

 two or three beats at a time. There will be emaciation, languor, pallor 

 of the visible mucous membranes. Death is liable to occur suddenly, at 

 any time, from complete interruption of the circulation by ante-mortem 

 clots, that is, clots that form in the heart and blood vessel? be:6ore 

 death . 



What to do. — Give the following oowder night and morning, in soft 

 feed. 



No. 67. 1 Drachm mix vomica, 



1 Drachm sulphate of iron, 

 1 Drachm foenugreelc seed, 

 Mix. 



Give this at one dose, and repeat it morning and night for three or 

 four weeks. Give gentle exercise, and feed some oil-cake meal every 

 day if he will eat it. Feed well. 



rv. Induration of the Heart. 



This is a hardening of the substance of the heart, which sometimes be- 

 comes almost as hard as wood. There are no characteristic symptoms 

 other than the weak, irregular pulse, and sudden death at some unex- 

 pected time. Nothing can be done. 



V. Patty Degeneration of the Heart. 



The fleshy substance of the heart degenerates into a khid of fatty sub- 

 stance that is not strong, and may be easily pulled to pieces by the hand 

 after death. There are no symptoms to recognize it by ex-cept the weak, 

 irregular pulse. Death is apt to occur suddenly, from ante-mortem 



clot. 



VI. Obesity of the Heart. 



This is an accumulation of fat around the heart, which interferes with 

 Its action, giving rise to a quick, fluttering pulse as though the heart were 

 laboring under a load that muffled it. It makes the breathins: short, and 



