238 The Farmer^s Veterinary Adviser. 



GASTEITIS IN OXEN. 



The acute impactions of tlie manifolds are usually com- 

 plicated with congestion, and the chronic impactions lead 

 to it. Inflammation also results from over-stimulating 

 food, (spring grass, clover, tares, green corn, etc.,) from 

 dry heating aliment, (excess of com meal, linseed cake, 

 rape cake, cotton cake,) from wUd mustard and other ir- 

 ritants, from poor, hard, fibrous food, from suspension of 

 rumination during prolonged hard vrork, and from min- 

 eral and vegetable irritants. 



Symptoms. In mild cases, from heating or poor food, 

 there are dullness, moaning, trembling, straining and fre- 

 quent passage of dung in small quantities, hot, clammy, 

 slightly reddened mouth, dry muzzle, sharp accelerated 

 pulse, fuUness and tenderness of the belly, and the pres- 

 ence of solid masses of food in the paimch as felt on the 

 left side when pressed with the fist. 



The more active forms, resulting from green food or ir- 

 ritants, are manifested by the same symptoms as acute 

 impaction of the third stomach, with the addition of a 

 tense abdomen, not dependent on the paunch, increasing 

 tenderness, and increased temperature of the body. There 

 may be diarrhoea or costiveness or one after the other, 

 and it may end in stupor or convulsions. 



Treatment. In the milder forms give a quart of linseed 

 or olive-oil and 2 drs. Dover's powder. Even Epsom or 

 Glauber salts may be used with drachm doses of hyoscy- 

 amus or belladonna as often as may be requisite to keep 

 down violent suffering. Give all the water the patient will 

 drink, adding a httle decoction of linseed, slippery elm or 

 mallow ; also frequent injections of warm water, and warm 

 fomentations to the abdomen followed by a blister. Brain 

 symptoms must be treated as advised under impaction of 

 the third stomach. FoUow up with a course of tonics 

 after relief is obtained. 



