DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 14^ 



INDIGESTION IN WORKING OXEN FROM DRINKING COLD WATER. 



This occurs in hard-working oxen, coming from a dusty road 

 in a hot day and drinking to excess. There are violent coHcky 

 pains, uneasy shifting of the hind limbs, lying down and rising, 

 looking at the flanks, and a fulness and gurgling on the right 

 side of the abdomen. It may pass in half an hour to an hour 

 with a free watery diarrhoea. Treatment consists in exercise, 

 walking or trotting, and a stimulating draught — pepper, ginger, 

 fennel, carraway, peppermint, ammonia, alcohol and the like. 



INDIGESTION IN CALVES, L\MBS, AND FOALS. WHITE SCOUR. 



This may result from a great variety of causes, such as with- 

 holding the first (laxative) milk after parturition, feeding new- 

 born calves on the milk of old calved cows, bringing up foals 

 or lambs on cow's milk, working, overdriving, or otherwise 

 exciting the dams, feeding unwholesome food to the dams, 

 allowing too long intervals between the meals of the young, 

 bringing up on hand on cold or soured milk or farinaceous 

 food, keeping in damp, unwholesome pens, or the accumulation 

 of pellets of hair in the stomach. 



Syniptonis. — Irregular (impaired or even ravenous) appetite, 

 swollen, tender, drum-like abdomen, sour eructations, profuse 

 foetid white watery diarrhcea, white or greyish fur on the tongue, 

 dry, scurfy, unthrifty skin, and rapid emaciation. 



Treatment. — Give a dose of i to 2 ozs. castor-oil {I for 

 lambs) with a teaspoonful of laudanum. Then with each meal 

 give a tablespoonful from a bottle of sherry in which \ of the 

 fresh fourth stomach of a calf has been steeped. Or with this 

 give a carminative (i oz. tincture of cinnamon) with an antacid 

 (prepared chalk or magnesia i dr.) and soothing or anodyne 

 agents (gum Arabic, bismuth), with, it may be, an astringent 

 (tincture of kino or catechu i dr.). If there is much tenderness 

 of the abdomen apply a pulp of mustard and water. If yellow' 

 ness of the mucous membranes, and white, very foetid dung, 



