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DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



the acute form, or the 

 first condition, when 

 8M1 m&M/, ' ksMt$% w§G&$jEg old or broken down an- 



SSnH Wl imals are the subjects 



attacked, emaciation is 

 especially prominent,. 

 (See Fig, 1033.) The 

 animal is hide-bound, 

 with hair erect and 

 filled with lice, skin 

 dirty, harsh, and dry, 



Pig. 1033.-Chronic Dysentery. and rumination and se- 



cretion are suspended. 

 The discharges are mixed with blood and pus, and extremely 

 offensive, and are passed involuntarily, and ulcers cover the lining 

 membrane of the rectum. The space beneath the jaws is filled by 

 a swelling, the result of dropsy. 



Treatment. — The animal should be kept at rest, and fed with 

 moist, easily digestible and nutritious food. To remove irritating 

 substances from the canal, give — 



Linseed oil . .,. J to 1 pt. 



Laudanum , J to 1 oz. 



Follow this with warm emollient injections of linseed tea or 

 soap-suds every hour. The laxative dose can generally be repeated 

 with advantage in 24 or 48 hours. 



Then give in a quart of milk twice a day,— 



Gallic acid. ,1 dr. 



PI. ex. of ipecac 4 drs. 



The chronic form of dysentery not infrequently baffles every 

 'effort at treatment. Give good feed in small and repeated quanti- 

 ties ; the drink should be bland, and consist of nutritious fluids, as 

 hay or linseed tea, slippery-elm water, flour and oatmeal gruel, or 

 broths, soups, and milk, and the blood of other animals. If the feces 

 are very offensive, two drams of chloride of lime can be given twice 

 a day in gruel, or the following : — 



Carbolic acid £ dr. 



Glycerine 1 oz. 



Chlorate of potash (pulverized) . . 2 dr. 



Give in a quart of gruel twice a day. 



