DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. }3 



food, and from want of exercise. I have seen it 

 caused as a result of distemper and influenza, end- 

 ing in the formation of an abscess and death. 



Symptoms : In the early stage of the disease it is 

 very difficult to tell what it is. Usually there is a 

 yellowness of the membrane of the nose, eyes, and 

 mouth, and if any part of the skin of the animal is 

 white it will have a yellow tinge; there is fever, in- 

 dicated by loss of appetite, hot, clammy mouth, fast 

 pulse, and rather full in the early stage. If it is a 

 cow it will moan if made to move, or if it is pressed 

 on the right side, but does not go lame as the horse 

 does, the secretions of bile are arrested, the bowels 

 will be constipated, and the feces dry and coated 

 with mucous. The milk will be scanty and of a 

 yellow color, and the cream thick and ropy. The 

 animal suffers much pain at times and is very rest- 

 less. When abscesses form the animal becomes 

 very much emaciated, the hair is dry and stands up, 

 the animal may eat some food, but usually very lit- 

 tle, and it pines away and dies. It is only on mak- 

 ing a post-mortem that we ascertain the true nature 

 of the disease. 



Treatment : Apply a blister to the right side and 

 give a dose of physic, aloes for the horse and Epsom 

 salts for cattle. If the fever is high give from 

 twenty to thirty drops of tincture of aconite every 

 two hours until the pulse is lower; also give half 

 ounce doses nitrate of potassiu^n three times a day 

 in the drinking water. When the acute stage is 

 over give dram doses of diluted nitro-hydrochloric 

 acid in a D ; nt of cold W9ter three times a day. 



