320 DISEASES OP CATTLE. 



situated on, and in the white membranes throughout the 

 body. 



Treatment. — Generous diet, composed of linseed or cake 

 meal, commercial sulphuric acid, gentian, sulphate of 

 iron, are the medicines indicated. In addition to this 

 treatment, which has already been recommended for con- 

 sumption, I would advise weekly inhalations of sulphurous 

 acid gas in the manner recommended under that head in 

 the list of medicines in the second part of the book (which 

 see,) for I think this is one of those diseases which will be 

 greatly benefited by its proper use. 



(2.) Diarrhoea in Calves. — This is a frequent affec- 

 tion among young calves, and destroys thousands of them 

 every year. 



Cause. — Depending upon the character of the milk; 

 not so much in regard to its quality as it is owing to the 

 time and manner of giving it : thus, calves are not allowed 

 to suck their own mothers; — frequently they are not 

 allowed to suck at al], but have to drink the milk out of 

 a bucket, and then it is often cold before the calves are 

 allowed to have it. The rapidity with which they 

 drink their allowance, which is often too much for them, 

 gorging the stomach and paralyzing the digestive func- 

 tions, and hence, the white diarrhoea so often seen among 

 young calves. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms one would think alike 

 in all animals; but this is not the case here, or so far as 

 the diarrhoea of calves is concerned : voracious appetite, 

 swelling of the belly with occasional pain, discharges of 

 wind or gas, and white or yellowish colored excrement or 

 dung, and in some bad cases the true milk is passed un- 

 changed by the action of either stomach or bowels. 



Prevention. — This is better than cure, and consists in 



