i6o CATTLE. 



GLOSSITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE TONGUE. 



The first symptoms of this disease are similar to that just 

 described, but it is quite within the capacity of the amateur to 

 treat it successfully. 



Causes. — Prickly forage, frosted glass, splinters, and other 

 foreign bodies. 



Treatment. — Begin with an aperient. Put two ounces of nitre 

 in each bucket of water, lance the most swollen parts of the 

 tongue, give iron and gentian powder in gruel, and if the 

 animal cannot swallow food supply it in the form of enema. 



A diversion of the swelling may be brought about by a 

 vigorous application of Elliman's to the throat and immediately 

 under the jaw. In this way the tongue is reduced in size and 

 some of the most painful symptoms alleviated. 



Hi^EMORRHAGE, OR EXCESSIVE BLEEDING* 



Occasionally an animal bleeds to death by accident, but it is not 

 a frequent experience, even among veterinary surgeons, to meet 

 with cases of the kind. Every cattle-man should know the 

 simplest and best means of controlling a loss of blood which 

 threatens to become dangerous to the beast's life, or a source of 

 weakness and loss of time in fattening. 



Bleeding to be of any serious extent must be from the 

 severance either of an artery or of a vein of some dimension, 

 and the rational mode of arresting it is to secure the vessel, or 

 plug the wound if unable to find it. If from the nature and 

 seat of injury it is impossible to use mechanical appliances, then 

 there are means which, acting through the medium of the 

 circulation, tend to arrest excessive flow of the vital fluid. Nature 

 herself intervenes in many instances to save the life of the 

 animal that is bleeding to death, by causing it to faint and fall 

 in a posture favourable to arrest of the stream and consistent with 

 renewal of the heart's action when time has permitted a 

 clot or natural plug to form. A familiar example of the latter 



