LOSS OF CUD. 



is turned should be short and bare, rather than luxuriant. The over- 

 distended stomach of the hoven beast will not soon, and in most 

 cases will never, quite recover its former energy ; and if the beast 

 be in tolerable condition, it should be sent to the butcher, or it 

 should be got ready for the market as quickly as that can with 

 safety be effected. 



Sucking -calves are occasionally subject to hoove. Little more 

 will be necessary in this case than the introduction of the probang. 

 This distension of the rumen arises from some accidental and tempo- 

 rary cause, and there is rarely any continued manufacture of gas 

 within the stomach. Some calves becom.e blown from the trick which 

 they frequently have of sucking each other's pizzle or ear. It is cu- 

 rious to see with what eagerness they will do this, and how quickly 

 they blow themselves up by the air which they draw in and swallow. 

 Tl^ introduction of the probang will be sufficient here, but it will be 

 prudent to separate the animals. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — Colchicum aiitumnale rarely fails in its 

 effects, and ordinarily it establishes an instantaneous cute. Some- 

 times, however, it must be repeated two, three, and even four times. 

 Occasionally the symptoms subside without the animal voiding any 

 wind. In chronic meteorization, or formation of gas, which is renewed 

 frequently, colchicum taken alternately with arsenicum is very useful. 

 Benefit it is said has been derived from china. If rumination be not 

 re-established at the time the disease is cured, aconitum must be given, 

 And after some hours, arsenicum. When meteorization, gas, has been 

 caused not by green fodder, but by some disturbance of digestion, 

 we must have recourse to nux vomica ; the same substance is suita- 

 ble, when the disease is attributable to the animal's having eaten 

 colchicum in the meadows. 



Lastly, when the danger has become so pressing that we are 

 brouglit to the necessity of puncturing in order to avoid death, it is, 

 however, still necessary to administer the colchicum after having 

 cleansed the mouth carefully ; after some time \ few doses of arnica 

 must be given. 



LOSS OF CUD. 



The cessation of rumination, designated by tne term " the loss of 

 cud," is more a symptom of disease, than a disease of itself. It ac- 

 companies most inflammatory complaints, and is often, connected 

 with those of debility. It will be the duty of the practitioner to 

 ascertain the cause of this suspension of second mastication, and to 

 adapt his mode of treatment to the nature of that cause. A dose of 

 physic, with a very small portion of aromntic medicine, will be indi- 

 cated if any fever can be detected ; more than the usual quantity of 

 the aromatic will be added in the absence of fever, and stil) more, 

 with tonic and alterative medicine, if general debifity be indicated. 



