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the ground. When recovery ensues, follow up with a course of 

 bitter tonics (gentian, willow bark, nux vomica, boneset, etc.). 



GASTRITIS IN OXEN. 



The acute impactions of the manifolds are usually compli" 

 cated with congestion, and the chronic impactions lead to it. 

 Inflammation also results from over-stimulating food (spring 

 grass, clover, tares, green corn, etc.), from dry heating aliment 

 (excess of corn meal, linseed cake, rape cake, cotton cake), 

 from wild mustard and other irritants, from poor, hard, fibrous 

 food, from suspension of rumination during prolonged hard 

 work, and from mineral and vegetable irritants. 



Symptoms. — In mild cases, from heating or poor focd, there 

 are dulness, moaning, trembling, straining, and frequent pas- 

 sage of dung in small quantities, hot, clammy, slightly reddened 

 mouth, dry muzzle, sharp accelerated pulse, fulness and tender- 

 ness of the belly, and the presence of solid masses of food in 

 the paunch as felt on the left side when pressed with the list. 



The more active forms, resulting from green food or irritants, 

 are manifested by the same symptoms as acute impaction of 

 the third stomach, with the addition of a tense abdomen, not 

 dependent on the paunch, increasing tenderness, and increased 

 temperature of the body. I'here may be diarrhoea or costiveness, 

 or one after the other, and it may end in stupor or convulsions. 



Treatment. — In the milder forms give a quart of linseed or 

 olive oil and two drs. Dover's powder. Even Epsom or Glauber 

 salts may be used with drachm doses of hyoscyamus or bella- 

 donna as often as may be requisite to keep down violent 

 suffering. Give all the -water the patient will drink, adding a 

 little decoction of linseed, slippery elm, or mallow ; also fre- 

 quent injections of warm water, and warm fomentations to the 

 abdomen followed by a blister. Brain symptoms must be 

 treated as advised under impaction of the third stomach. 

 Follow up with a course of tonics after relief is obtained. 



