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plethoric, blood may be drawn in the earlier stages. Place the animal In 

 a loo?* box stall, with plenty of ventilation to the stable. If the bowels 

 are costive, loosen them by injections of warm water. Bandage th* 

 limbs to keep them warm, and give the body such clothing as the neces- 

 lities of the case seem to require. Let the food be simple, laxative an(i 

 cooling. Bran mashes, boiled carrots, linseed meal, soft sweet hay. Do 

 not check diarrhoea or profuse staling ; it is an effort of nature to relieve 

 the system. If there is fever, give plenty of water. If there is swift 

 pulse and oppression of the lungs, give 20 to 30 drops of tincture of 

 aconite in half a pint of water, or 1 to 2 drachms of tincture of veratrum 

 in water every two hours. If under this treatment the system becomes 

 depressed, and it must be watched, discontinue. If the pulse falls — ^if 

 there is trembling sweats, and a peculiar anxious expression in the eyes, 

 discontinue. If there is great exhaustion, give moderate doses of whisky, 

 but discontinue it unless good effects are seen. If there is much weak- 

 ness, give two drachms each of camphor and of carbonate of ammonia, 

 made into a ball with molasses and linseed meal, twice a day. In the 

 case of considerable congestion, strong mustard poultices will be indi-» 

 cated, to be applied to the chest ; or in extreme cases, blister. 



In the case of cattle, the same general treatment should be followed. 

 Double the quantity of aconite and ammonia should be given. As a rule, 

 cattle require more than the horse; and in giving medicine to cattle it 

 must trickle down the throat, in order that it may not pass into the first 

 stomach. 



In this disease symptoms must be watched. Good nursing is of espe- 

 cial value, and as the animal begins to recover, give soft and easily 

 digestible food, and assist the system if necessary with wine, ale or 

 whisky in very light doses. 



IV. Consumption. 



This hereditary affection is much more common in the West than is 

 generally supposed. More common in cattle and even in sheep and 

 swine than in horses. In horses it is comparatively rare. The disease 

 may be communicated to healthy animals by inoculation, and by eating 

 the raw flesh of diseased animals, and it may also be superinduced in an- 

 imals predisposed to the disease by local inflammation ; so also the germs 

 nay be received in milk, when the disease has invaded the mammary 

 glands of the cow. Deep milking cattle with narrow horns, thin necka 

 and narrow chests are especially predisposed to the disease. Tubercles 

 may be developed in any part of the body, even, in rare cases, the bones 

 and muscles ; the lungs, the spleen, the liver, the paflcreas, the ovaries 

 and the kidneys are the usual seats of the disease. 



