150 Veterinary Medicine. 



Filliatre obtained excellent results in calves, with a solution of 

 tar 150 grams in 6 litres of boiling water, given in the dose of }i 

 litre every half hour. It may also be used as an enema. The 

 diarrhoea is promptly checked, and the tar water may then be re- 

 stricted to % litre mixed with the milk of the next two days. 

 One-tenth of the dose may be given to lambs. 



Among other antiseptics in use may be named salicylic acid and 

 tannin, salol, boric acid, betol, dianaphthol, benzonaphthol, salicy- 

 late of bismuth, creolin, naphthalin, and lactic acid. 



When icteric membranes, white discharges and extreme fcetor 

 indicate hepatic disorder, calomel 1 part and chalk 1 2 parts may 

 be resorted to three or four times a day (foal or calf 6 grs., lamb 



1 gr.)- 



Among the carminatives may be named anise, fennel, dill, cin- 

 namon, and chamomile. Beside their stimulant action these are 

 all more or less antiseptic. 



In addition to the boiling of the milk, and in certain cases as a 

 temporary substitute, may be used sterilized mucilaginous agents, 

 gum arabic, flax seed, and slippery elm. 



GASTROENTERITIS IN CAI/VES FROM UMBIEICAE 



INFECTION. 



Under this heading will be noticed the peculiarly fatal affection, 

 which starts by infection from the umbilicus in the first or second 

 day after birth and proves fatal after a few days dysenteric gastro- 

 enteritis, or later after an extension to other organs — lungs, liver,, 

 kidney, joints. 



Causes. As predisposing causes, may be accepted all conditions- 

 of hereditary debility, and post-natal exposure, which contributes 

 so strongly to the common white scour. In the more rapid cases, 

 occurring just after birth, the evil effects of the milk cannot well 

 be invoked, but in those which occur some days later, any un- 

 wholesome or poisonous quality in that secretion, as well as the 

 overloading of the stomach with good and wholesome milk can- 

 not fail to contribute to the fermentation of the gastric and intes- 

 tinal contents and the production of a complex infection and in- 

 toxication. 



