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240 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
TREATMENT.—At first give ammonium causticum, ten drops every ten 
or fifteen minutes. Colchicum rarely fails, particularly in cases resulting 
from vegetable food. Repeat it several times if necessary. It is valuable, 
in alternation with arsenicum, in chronic hoove. Colocynth is beneficial, 
given every twenty minutes. If the lungs are much implicated, give 
bryonia in alternation with aconite. For founder from wet clover, a mouth- 
ful or two of corn on the cob is a popular and valuable remedy, often suffi- 
‘cient without other expedients. When matters have become improved, allow 
no food or water for several hours, and these should be sparing for some 
time afterward. Give nux vomica two or three times daily until the animal 
is fully cured. 
Stabbing or puncturing in very urgent cases may be required, but 
should be resorted to only then. It is best to use a trocar, sufficiently long 
to prevent the paunch from slipping away from it. In the absence of this 
along, sharp-pointed penknife may be used. Ata point midway between 
the ribs and the hips insert the knife, pointing it inward and downward, 
where the rumen is most prominent, insert a quill or other tube into the 
opening at once; or in the absence of such, hold the wound open with a 
smooth stick until the gas has escaped. With this gas solid food may come 
out; and here is the danger, and not in the wound itself. Should this food 
escape into the abdomen instead of passing out freely, 1t will cause inflam- 
mation of the abdominal organs; or, as another difficulty, the kidneys 
or spleen may be pierced. After such relief, chloride of lime is valuable, 
two drachms being mixed in a quart of water and thus administered. 
GRASS STAGGERS.—DRY MURRAIN. 
This results from a retention of food in the third stomach, instead 
of its passage into the. fourth stomach. Fine, dry, hard matters become 
tightly compressed in some cases, and so closely adhere to the mucous: 
membranes of the folds that their removal causes the loss of the thick 
membrane which lines the organ; in other cases, soft, souring masses are 
inclosed in the folds. In either case, nutrient food is not passed into the 
fourth stomach. Sometimes the folds are gangrenous, and the fourth 
stomach highly inflamed. It is occasionally epidemic, and its causes are 
supposed to be bad or coarse food, and sudden changes of diet. 
Symptoms.—Excitement, perhaps delirium, followed by dullness and 
quietness; hanging head; indifference; dry muzzle; hanging tongue; promi- 
nent red eyes; constipation; red nasal membrane; high-colored urine; rapid, 
hard pulse; stoppage of milk, or it becomes poor; later, trembling; loss of 
consciousness; swollen belly; cold limbs; death. 
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