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moderate secretion and discharge from the bowels ; eserine or 

 pilocarpin may be used for the same purpose ; the bitters and 

 antiseptics may be given in the same way. As calmative aroma- 

 tics, oil of peppermint 30 drops, powdered anise ^ ounce, or 

 ginger y 2 ounce, may be given twice or thrice daily. 



Cadeac strongly recommends a drink slightly acidulated with 

 hydrochloric acid to assist the digestion and stimulate the stomach 

 to action. 



Attention must of course be given to any curable concurrent or 

 inter-dependent disease. 



DYSENTERY OF CATTLE. 



Defintion. Attacks ox mainly. Causes : accessory causes, chills, rain, 

 storms, night dews, hoar frost, foul or iced water, alimentary irritants, 

 spoiled fodder, over exertion, hot damp weather, odors of carrion, crowding, 

 swamps, foul stables, germs or pathogenic ferment, in man catarrhal, diph- 

 theritic and amoebic, amoeba dysenterica, bacillus dysenterise, other microbes, 

 effect of better hygiene. Symptoms : attack sudden, languor, trembling, 

 weakness, weeping eyes, fever, buccal epithelial softening, erosions, tenes- 

 mus, foetid, liquid stools, involuntary defecation, hemorhoidal congestion, 

 open anus, colics, tender right flank, splashing on handling, anorexia, saliva- 

 tion, unthrifty skin, hide-bound, cracked muzzle, later prostration, low tem- 

 perature, sunken glazed eyes, drooping head, ears, eyelids, weakness, emaci- 

 ation, alkaline, foetid, frothy, bloody, mucous stools, with sloughs, saliva 

 acid, gastric liquids alkaline, bile suppressed. Duration : three days to three 

 weeks or chronic. Mortality 50 to 80 per cent. Complications : mostly septic, 

 abscess, gangrene of other organs, lungs, joints, glands, etc. Lesions : rapid 

 sepsis, blood deep red, coagulum loose, venous congestion, large intestines 

 congested, tumefied, softened, desquamated, eroded, sloughing, necrotic, 

 folds perforated, cicatrizing, contents mucopurulent, bloody, putrid, microbes, 

 glandular lesions, implication of small intestines, stomach, mouth, liver, 

 spleen, hepatic abscess. Diagnosis : from rinderpest by tardiness and com- 

 parative weakness of contagion, absence of general mucons congestion and 

 epithelial concretions, from toxic enteritis by same. Prevention : avoidance 

 of causes, separation of sick, disinfection, careful feeding. Treatment : 

 Demulcents, antiseptics, astringent tonics, opiates, ipecacuan, calomel, 

 sodium sulphate with antiseptics, antiseptic enemata of glycerine, phenol, 

 creoline, iron sulphate, silver nitrate, salicylic and boric acids, rest, gravi- 

 tation, careful dieting. 



Definition. An infective, ulcerative inflammation of the large 

 intestine but especially of the colic and rectal mucosae. 



