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DISEASES OP HORSES AND CATTLE. C5 



drams of opium in a pint of raw linseed oil; or 

 if the animal is very weak, give a good stimulant, 

 half a pint of whisky. Put a teaspoonful of car- 

 bolic acid into half a pail of hot water and bathe 

 the part for half an hour, then apply lead acetate 

 one ounce; tincture of catechu, one ounce; tincture 

 of opium, two ounces ; water, one quart. After it is 

 well bathed with a little of this, return it by gentle 

 pressure. Keep it in with your hand for a short 

 time, then put on a truss, the same as is used for 

 falling down of the womb. It will be necessary to 

 watch the animal for ten or twelve hours. Give 

 bran mash once a day with a dram of nux vomica 

 in it, for a week or two. If the outside sloughs off 

 and there is a foul smell, add two drams of car- 

 bolic acid to the above lotion. If this is properly 

 attended to, very bad cases will recover. 



Hernia is a protrusion of the gut through some 

 part, usually through the walls of the abdomen. 

 They may be congenital, that is present at birth, or 

 acquired, when they appear suddenly later in life. 

 They are also divided into reducible or irreducible, 

 as the bowel can or cannot be replaced. Hernia is 

 dangerous to life only when it becomes strangu- 

 lated. It is called strangulated hernia when it is 

 constricted, when it passes through the opening, 

 or when feces accumulate in the sack and cannot 

 return, or from congestion of "the protruded part; 

 and if it is not relieved, mortification of the 

 strangulated part takes place and the animal dies. 

 The symptoms of strangulated hernia are a con- 



