DISEASES OP THE OX AND SHEEP. 663 



of aloes forms a useful cathartic mixture. The most assiduous 

 care is requisite throughout the course of the malady. The 

 suffering animal should be supported by bundles of straw, kept 

 warm by being covered with clothes, the udder should be regularly 

 stripped, and the body should be well rubbed. Ice-bags or cold 

 water may be suitably applied to the forehead, and diffusible 

 stimulants should be somewhat freely administered. A strong 

 stimulating liniment should be rubbed along the spine. Enemas 

 may be frequently given, and, moreover, the urine should be 

 frequently drawn off by the aid of a catheter. 



Medicines should be given by means of the stomach-pump, 

 whereby the tympany will also be relieved. Gruel diet, or at 

 any rate easily digestible laxative food, should be supplied. After 

 recovery, the animal may still suffer from paraplegia, and if this 

 is not amenable to the action of tonics, and the application of 

 absorbent agents and blisters over the spine, the animal should 

 be slaughtered and used for food, if the flesh is suitable for this 

 purpose. 



(1.) A dose of aperient medicine. Either {a) two pints of 

 castor oil together with 20 drops of croton oil, or (b) 16 ounces 

 of sulphate of magnesium together with half an ounce of powdered 

 ginger and eight drachms of powdered aloes, to be given in a pint 

 or more of warm water. 



(2.) A stimulating draught (a) made up of four drachms of 



carbonate of ammonium together with one ounce of powdered 



ergot. This may be given in six fluid ounces of brandy or 



rhisky every four hours. Or {b) a draught of one fluid ounce of 



romatic spirit of ammonia together with three fluid ounces of 



jpirit of nitric ether, to be repeated every half hour. 



(3.) A liniment should be well rubbed along the spine now 

 md again. It should be made of equal fluid parts of liniment 

 [of ammonia and of liniment of camphor. 



(4.) The wet pack should be applied to the cow. It acts as 

 [an efficient sudorific, and the temperature may often be very 

 [greatly reduced by a careful and thorough application of it. 



If the coma increases, whisky or brandy should be given in 

 rdoses of about fifteen fluid ounces or a pint given at intervals of 

 (two hours; but if after the fourth dose no amelioration takes 

 rplace, the case may be considered hopeless. Should the bowels 

 ^be freely opened, and the animal gradually become more con- 



