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or if slight pressure is brought to bear on the loins 

 the animal will squeal. There is loss of appetite 

 and high fever, fast pulse, rapid breathing and 

 elevated temperature. The animal is restless and 

 a few drops of highly colored urine will be passed 

 at short intervals. In a few days, if the animal is 

 not relieved, it will become very weak, staggering 

 on its legs, especially the hind ones; the fever in- 

 creases, and the brain becomes affected from the 

 blood being poisoned by ureic salts not being elim- 

 inated from it, thus causing uremic poisoning. 

 The stomach often becomes affected, causing vom- 

 iting, and there will be a strong smell of urine. 

 Treatment: Give a dose of epsom salts, one or 

 two ounces, dissolved in half a pint of cold water. 

 If the stomach is irritable, give three or four grains 

 of calomel and one grain of opium every two hours 

 till three doses are taken. This combination has 

 often the effect of quieting the stomach, so that 

 it will retain salts. When the fever is very high, 

 give from three to five drops of tincture of aconite 

 in a little water every tw^o hours until the fever 

 is reduced. If there is much pain one or two grains 

 of opium should be given. The animal should be 

 encouraged to drink all the cold water possible; 

 barley and ice w^ater may also be given with the 

 bottle. Sometimes sixty drops of tincture of 

 opium, mixed with linseed tea and given as an 

 Injection, is very useful. Apply mustard poultices 

 to the loins. When the acute symptoms are 

 passed, give a teaspoonful of spirits of nitrous 

 ether and a teaspoonful of fluid extract of buchu 



