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The animal has slight colics, indicated by stamping and kicking towards the 

 abdominal walls, frequently towards the flanks, and twitching the tail. 



TREATMENT. Submit the animal to a severe diet; such is always the 

 first indication to follow, and it must be enforced as long as rumination is 

 interrupted. 



Increase the thirst by giving salt freely, if the patient will not lick it, 

 drinks with salt must be administered in order to induce her to drink water 

 as much as possible. If there is constipation, or if defecations are infrequent, 

 1 to 1 \ pounds of epsom salt and 2 drams of powdered ginger may be 

 given in two quarts of warm water. In very urgent cases of bloating 

 the trocar and cannula should not be spared in order to allow the gases 

 to escape from the paunch. Where the peristaltic movements are want- 

 ing, 3 drams of tincture of white helebore may be given. 



CHRONIC INDIGESTION. 



This is a functional derangement of the stomach; it comes on slowly and 

 requires a long time to cure. During its existence it is not serious or danger- 

 ous; that is in the ordinary case. It is very common in dairy cows, and 

 there are three influences that operate to produce it. First, errors in feeding; 

 second, changes in the gastric and other secretions; third, abnormalities 

 affecting the movements of the stomach, such as cancerous and other 

 growths. 



SYMPTOMS. The animal usually has a capricious appetite, sometimes 

 hungry, sometimes no appetite, an unnatural thirst, unnatural hunger for 

 alkalies, will lick the walls and eat the mortar from between the bricks, eat 

 large quantities of clay, etc. ; this all shows a tendency to indigestion, hence 

 the animal's desire to obtain alkali. The limit of their thirst is their capacity ; 

 they often turn up their upper lip in bad cases. As the disease runs on, the 

 coat becomes stairing and rough, the animal thin and pot-bellied; there is 

 palpitation of the heart. 



TREATMENT. Give a complete change in food. Grass is best if in 

 season. When feeding grain have it ground and mix it with bran half and 

 half; limit the water to one-half bucket four or five times daily and dissolve 

 ir. each drink one-half teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda. 



Then give the following: Arsenicum 1 dram; powdered gentian root 

 1$ ounce; powdered hydrastis 1 ounce; powdered nux vomica \\ ounce; 

 powdered wood charcoal 2 ounces; mix and make into 12 powders. Give 

 one in food morning and night until relieved. 



DYSENTERY OF THE NEWLY BORN CALF. 



This affection and pyemic polyarthritis are the most fatal diseases of 

 young age. It is also observed in the foal, lamb, dog and cat. 



According to some of our most eminent authorities, it is so Common in 

 certain districts of Austria that in one region, in a total of 3,318 calves 1,196 



