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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 J^ 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, crowd- 

 ing, swamps, foul stables, germs or pathogenic ferment, in man catarrhal 

 diphtheritic and amoebic, amoeba dysenterica, other microbes, effect of 

 better hygiene. Symptoms : attack sudden, languor, trembling, weakness, 

 weeping eyes, fever, buccal epithelial softening, erosions, tenesmus, foetid, 

 liquid stools, involuntary defecation, hemorrhoidal congestion, open anus, 

 colics, tender right flank, splashing on handling, anorexia, salivation, un- 

 thrifty skin, hide- bound, cracked muzzle, later prostration, low temperature, 

 sunken glazed eyes, drooping head, ears, eyelids, weakness, emaciation, 

 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 in- 

 testines 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 tardi- 

 ness and comparative weakness of contagion, absence of general mucous 

 congestion and epithelial concretions, from toxic enteritis by same. Pre- 

 vention : avoidance of causes, separation of sick, disinfection, careful feed- 

 ing. Treatment : Demulcents, antiseptics, astringent tonics, opiates, ipeca- 

 cuan, calomel, sodium sulphate with antiseptics, antiseptic enemata of 

 glycerine, phenol, creolin, iron sulphate, silver nitrate, salicylic and boric 

 acids, rest, gravitation, careful dieting. 



