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mucous membranes and white, very foetid dung, give 2 

 grs. calomel and 5 grs. chalk twice daily. In all cases 

 give fresh, warm, wholesome milk thrice a day, with sev- 

 eral spoonfuls of lime-water added to each meal. lu 

 some instances the tone of the stomach may be greatly 

 restored by a tablespoonful of tincture of gentian twice a 

 day. 



Prevention should be sought in breeding only vigorous 

 families, sheltering properly, and feeding the milk of the 

 dam or of a healthy nurse unaltered by faulty feeding or 

 excitement, or by standing. When a foal must be brought 

 up on cow's milk, dilute with one-third its bulk of warm 

 water, sweeten with sugar and add lime-water. For the 

 carnivora use only the upper third of cow's milk. 



ACUTE GASTBIC INDIGESTION IN THE HOESE. TYMPANY. 



This results from sudden filling of the stomach to excess, 

 from suspended digestion in connection with hard work 

 immediately after a meal, from the washing on of un- 

 digested food, from a fuU drink after a feed of grain, from 

 certain indigestible and easily fermented ahments, such as 

 cause tympany in the ox, from irritant plants, and from 

 hurried swallowing of hot cooked food. 



Symptoms. These appear just after feeding and are at 

 first those of simple colic, (see Spasmodic CoHc) soon 

 followed by fullness and tension of the belly, a drum-Hke 

 sound when it is percussed, quickened, deep, oppressed 

 breathing, dullness and increasing stupor. The pain is 

 continuous though of varying intensity, there is no dispo- 

 sition to eat or drink, draughts administered tend to 

 aggravate the symptoms, the sufferer yawns, places his 

 fore feet apart, arches the neck drawing in the nose toward 

 the breast, and in exceptional cases, may obtain rehef by 

 belching gas, or even by vomiting, the food escaping 

 mainly through the nose. More commonly the occurrence 

 of vomiting implies rupture of the stomach and presages 

 death. The pulse then becomes rapid, weak and soon 



