INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF CATTLE. 5l7 



Treatment. — Treatment consists in making incisions into the swell- 

 ings and syringing them out with 5 per cent creolin or carbolic acid. 

 The cavities may then be packed with cotton soaked in 5 per cent 

 zinc chlorid solution. The swollen lymphatics may also be bathed or 

 covered with cloths wrung out in this solution. 



NOTE. 



The following are also infectious diseases of cattle, a discussion of 

 which will be found in previous chapters : 



Page. 



Contagious abortion 169 



White scour of calves _- 266 



Infectious opbtlialmia (pink eye) 357 



