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Treatment. If it is decided to treat the sick they should be 

 placed together in safe seclusion from all others. Feed with 

 mush or cooked roots or vegetables adding salol ^ dr. naphthol 

 I dr. and quinia i dr. to the food of 15 or 20 fowls. Nitrate of 

 bismuth and powdered charcoal may be added in moderate quan- 

 tities. As drink give water containing 2% of sulphuric acid. 

 Antiseptic enemata may be added in the case of very valuable birds, 

 salol, naphthol, boric acid, salicylate of .soda, or .solution of 

 carbolic acid or creosote. Stimulants and tonics are highly 

 esteemed by some, and Cadeac recommends the free use of the 

 following mixture : powdered fennel, anise, coriander and quinia 

 of each 5 drs., gentian 10 drs. , ginger 12 drs., ferric sulphate 2j^ 

 drs. 



COCCIDIAN ENTERITIS IN CATTLE. COCCIDIOSIS. 

 RED DYSENTERY. 



Definition. ' Distribution : Switzerland in summer. Causes ; weakness, 

 debility, youth, cold,' heats, spoilt fodder, protozoa, coccidium oviforme, 

 coccidium perforans. I^esions : reddening, thickening and desquamation of 

 alimentary mucosa and lungs, congested mesenteric glands, liver and spleen, 

 coccidia in discharge and epithelium, staining, anaemia. Symptoms : chill, 

 fever, grinding teeth, foetid diarrhcea becoming bloody, tenesmus, stiffness, 

 red ulcerated rectum, emaciation, false membranes. Duration : death in 

 one to fourteen days or more. Complications. Diagnosis by coccidia. 

 Prevention : avoidance of affected soils, water and fodder. Treatment : 

 antiseptic, by mouth and as enemata, demulcents. Flesh safely eaten by 

 man. Coccidium bigeminum in dogs, coccidium oviforme in rabbits, coc- 

 cidium tenellum and gregarina avium intestinalis in birds. 



Definition. Enteritis affecting chiefly the colon and rectum, 

 and due to the presence of the protozoa, coccidium oviforme, and 

 coccidium perforans. 



Distribution. This affection was found in 1885 in the cantons 

 of Berne, Lucerne and Argovi where it attacked 5 per cent, of 

 the cattle and destroyed from 2 to 4 per cent, of those that suf- 

 fered. It prevailed mainly in the summer (May to October) on 

 the pastures, though not unknown at other seasons. Sucking 

 calves were immune and the ages of a year to two and a half 

 years were the main sufferers. 



