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animals seldom live more than a week, and never exceed eight 

 days when affected with rabies, while the treatment recommended 

 for milk mania will have the opportunity to bring about a 

 change long before the expiry of that period. 



RED WATER. 



Cause. — Ill-drained land and sudden changes of pasture are 

 said to be the cause of red water. 



Treatment. — First a bold aperient, as an ounce of aloes and 

 fib. of Epsom salts. The application of ElHman's over the 

 loins. Nourishing food, gruel, old ale or wine, in moderate 

 doses at regular intervals. 



RINGWORM* 



Cause. — A vegetable parasite. 



Tpeatment. — The vitality of ringworm varies very much in 

 different seasons, but in the ordinary way sulphur ointment will 

 destroy it. In troublesome and persistent cases it may be 

 necessary to use mercurial ointment, or a preparation of spirit 

 of tar with sulphur and oil, rubbing it in two or three times. 

 Tr. of iodine, appUed to the affected part with a brush, may be 

 tried. 



SCOUR, SKIT, WHITE SKIT* 



A disease principally affecting calves. 



Cause. — Indigestion. Too full a meal and too long intervals. 

 Cold skim milk and unsuitable substitutes, or a specific organism 

 in the milk. 



Treatment. — Clear the digestive canal of its sour contents 

 with a dose of castor oil, give small quantities of milk, and give 

 them often. A decoction of oak bark made by boiling an ounce 

 of it in a quart of water for half an hour is as good an 

 astringent as any; one or two table-spoonfuls to be given for a 

 dose twice a day, or the medicine see page 179. 



See that the calf-house is properly cleaned out and 

 disinfected. Many of those with stages are saturated with stale 

 discharges, and a specially unmanageable form of diarrhoea 

 results. 



