400 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. 



loses consciousness partially or wholly. In some instances mania 

 sets in, and then death soon puts an end to the sufferings. 



In these cases a powerful purgative must be given at once: 

 ten ounces of Epsom salts, ten ounces of Glauber's salts, four 

 drachms of diluted sulphuric acid, with twenty minims of croton 

 oil, may be administered in a sufficiency of gruel. This draught 

 may be repeated in half the amount after the lapse of eight or 

 ten hours. After the first draught is given, mucilage of linseed 

 or gruel should be given in large quantities every hour, and at 

 each alternate administration four drachms of diluted sulphuric 

 acid may be added. Where lead-works are carried on, oxen in 

 the district not uncommonly become the victims of chronic lead 

 poisoning. 



With regard to the question of poisoning in relation to sheep, 

 it may be said that the principal seat of inflammation when a sheep 

 is destroyed by reason of acrid poisons, whether the poison be 

 gathered in the field, or wilfully administered, or accidentally 

 swallowed, is the fourth stomach, or abomasus. Lambs which 

 have been taken from their mothers at too early a period may die 

 as a result of feeding upon deleterious plants, such, for example, 

 as the yew, and some of the species of the ranunculus, which, if 

 eaten, cause great suffering. Of the metallic poisons, those 

 which are most frequently fatal are arsenic and that deadly salt 

 of mercury, the perchloride, generally known under the name of 

 corrosive sublimate. It is well to remember in this connection 

 that death may occur in lambs as a result merely of coagulation 

 of milk in the true stomach. This subject we shall refer to 

 again more thoroughly under the heading of diarrhoea. 



SECTION IL— DISEASES OF THE CIECULATOBY 

 SYSTEM, 



THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM AND SOME DISEASES 



CONNECTED THEREWITH. 

 The question *' What, after all, is life ? " is one which will now 

 and again recur to the reflective mind. Nevertheless, think of 

 this momentous question and search into it as much and as 

 deeply as we may, it is well-nigh impossible to find anything 



