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collection), sticking in the heart, or its covering. Sometimes the 

 animal is very lame, and on close examination an enlargement is found 

 in the side behind the elbow, which on cutting into is foiuid to contain 

 perhaps a large needle or pm. Again, in other cases, the symptoms 

 are, that the animal begins to lose flesh and milk, feeds badly, rarely 

 chews the cud, and shows all the symptoms of a "■ piner,'' having a dry, 

 ticklish, barking cough, standmg with the hind legs down in the 

 gangway of the byre, the belly tucked up, and sides dropped in, the 

 breathing short and slightly quickened ; but the most confirming 

 symptom is the jugular vein being greatly enlarged, sticking out as 

 thick as the handle of a hay-fork, with a wavy pulsation in it. As 

 the case progresses, watery swellings are seen under the jaw, and on 

 the lower side of the neck and dew-lap, while the pulse is so small and 

 quick as to be scarcely appreciable. On applying the ear to the flat 

 or bottom of the sternum, just behind the elbow, the heart can be 

 heard splashing in the water, with a peculiar tinkling running sound. 

 This symptom may be due to some foreign body sticking in the 

 pericardium, or to chronic inflammation of the pericardium from other 

 causes — one prominent cause bemg the retention of the second 

 cleansing, the flow of which maj' have been checked by east wind 

 chills, or from too early removal of the cow after calving, &c. [Lecliive 

 XII.) The animal at first falls slightly off its milk and food, and the 

 complaint steals on gradually, until it ends in hydro-pericarditis. 

 Treatment is very unsatisfactory. Saline medicines, combined with 

 iron and vegetable tonics can be tried (see Appendix). 



441. A Young Animal, under twelve months old, when fed on too 

 nitrogenous a diet, such as decorticated cotton cake, suffers sometimes 

 from coiigesiioii of the lungs and heart. It has a dry husky cough, the 

 head is stretched out and held low, jugulav vein full, breathing quick, 

 with a sharp grunt, while the movement of the flanks is rapid, and 

 there is generally foaming at the mouth. In fact at the first glance, 

 the case resembles quarter-ill. Such cases usually terminate fatally, 

 and the animal should be slaughtered early. Cotton cake of any sort 

 should never be given to animals under twelve months old. 



