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lambs the disease takes a rapid and fatal course. Older animals 

 generally recover. 



TREATMENT 



Separate the sick from the healthy. Lambs unable to suck 

 should receive milk artificially. Older animals should have bran 

 mashes, ground feed, or gruels. The mouth should be swabbed out 

 daily with such antiseptics as compound solution of cresol, carbolic 

 acid, or permanganate of potash in 2 per cent solution. It is also 

 beneficial to dissolve 2 tablespoonfuls of borax in each pail of drink- 

 ing water. 



CHOKING 



CAUSE 



Choking occurs as the result of the lodging of a piece of root 

 or dry, coarse feed in the gullet. 



SYMPTOMS 



Difficult breathing, head stretched out, attempts to swallow or 

 to vomit, stoppage of rumination, and bloating suggest choking. 

 Feeling along the gullet will reveal the obstruction. 



TREATMENT 



If the obstruction is near the mouth it may be fished out with 

 the hngers or an instrument, or forced up by outside pressure. If 

 farther down, a little linseed oil may be given and the material 

 pushed toward the paunch by means of a rubber tube or stout 

 looped wire. In obstinate cases immediate slaughter mav be advis- 

 able. 



