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‘by stupor with giddiness, half-closed, glassy eyes, constipation, and slow, 
feeble pulse. Give arnica externally and internally once in an hour, or 
-oftener in extreme cases, if the cause is some external injury. 
Gelseminum, a wine-glassful of a mixture of twenty drops of tincture 
in a pint of water, given every two hours, is valuable in cases resulting from 
‘exposure to the sun, with weakness of the muscles and enlarged pupils 
of the eyes. 
For further information, consult this disorder in the Horse. Keep the 
animal perfectly quiet. When the violence of the symptoms subsides, give 
‘soft food that is easily digested and readily taken. 
APOPLEXY. 
Apoplexy has causes similar to those of Brain Fever, but is much more 
rapid in its attack. For symptoms, treatment, and general care, consult the 
article on Brain Fever above, and on Apoplexy in the Horse. 
PARALYSIS. 
This is a, loss of nervous power in the muscles, and may affect one 
muscle or many. It occurs mainly in old cattle in bleak countries, cold, un- 
healthy stables, or those exposed to cold after warm stabling. 
Symptoms.—Legs, generally the hind ones, cold and weak, then stiff, 
dragging and resting on the pasterns; then the animal becomes unable to 
stand and sits on its haunches. 
TREATMENT.—Keep the animal warm and well supplied with litter; 
change to nourishing food; turn the animal over two or three times a day. 
For further information, consult Paralysis in the Horse. 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
Hydrophobia occurs more frequently in the cow than in the horse, 
and results from the bite of a rabid animal. 
Symptoms.— Loud and frequent hollow bellowing; stamping and but- 
ting; sometimes return of the food into the mouth about the third day; the 
secretion of milk diminishes; foaming at the mouth; paralysis; death in from 
four to seven days; consciousness throughout. 
TREATMENT.— Wash the wound well with warm water and some dis- 
infectant; then burn it with an iron, or apply strong nitric acid. Dress then 
with a strong carbolic acid lotion, or lime-water and oil. Belladonna and 
stramonium may afterward be used. When the case is fully developed 
medicine will generally be of little avail. 
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