426 THE VETERINARY SCIENCE 



The animal cannot reach down to the ground. The eyes have 

 a peculiar look and seem to be turned back in the head and 

 set. In some cases the animal can eat, while in other cases 

 it cannot, according to how much the muscles of the jaws are 

 affected. 



Treatment. — This is one of the diseases that does not 

 require much medicine because giving the medicine excites 

 and dues more harm than good, and, anyway, medicine does 

 not seem to do any good :ii this disease. Give the following: 



Epsom Salts 1 pound. 



Bicarbonate of Soda 1 dessertspoonful. 



Ginger 1 dessertspoonful. 



Fluid Extract of Belladonna 1 dram or 1 teaspoonful. 



Mix in a quart of lukewarm water and give as a drench 

 once a week. Keep the animal perfectly quiet and free from 

 noise. Give food made into gruel, so that it can drink it 

 down. If caused from a wound, bathe the wound twice a day 

 and fill the opening with green salve. If possible poultice it 

 every night with linseed meal. This disease generally takes 

 three or four weeks to run its course, and if you can keep the 

 animal's strength up till then it will pass away, while in 

 severe cases they die in a week or so. 



