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TREATMENT.—For high fever, quick pulse, dry, hot muzzle, very hot 
horns and ears, and varying temperature of limbs, ears and muzzle, give 
aconite. Give nux vomica in alternation with aconite, every three or four 
hours until the fever subsides, then alone three or four times a day. Ar- 
senicum and sulphur will be needed in some cases, particularly when the 
dung is thin, watery and offensive. If the case has been neglected, or is 
symptomatic of another disorder, or has become chronic, it will take a 
good while for the stomach to return to its normal condition. Make a 
complete change in diet and allow only such food as is easily digested. 
ULCERATED MOUTH. 
This is contagious and often attacks a whole herd. 
Symptoms.—Red, hot mouth; diminished appetite and milk, the lat- 
ter being watery; in a few days a small red eruption in the mouth, which 
enlarges to various sizes, becoming white, bursting, and leaving a scab; 
eating stopped; drinking with dribbles. If the tongue, in mild cases, does 
not gradually cleanse, the sores join and become of a leaden color, leaving 
corroding ulcers which carry off small pieces of the membrane; inflamed 
throat; cough; offensive breath; loss of flesh. 
TREATMENT.—Give mercurius three times daily. If the disease does 
not yield, give one grain of antimonium tartaricum two or three times 
daily. Sulphur may be required if there be dry, hot mouth; offensive 
breath; ulcerations with scabs. Rinse the mouth with Condy’s Fluid. 
THRUSH. 
Thrush is an inflammatory fungoid disorder, consisting in minute vesi- 
cles which end in white sloughs in the mouth and discharge a fluid, after 
which they become ulcers that run together; the lining peels off, leaving a 
tender surface that prevents eating. There is a profuse flow of stringy 
saliva from the mouth and loss of flesh. It is caused by poor food, irritat- 
ing plants, or constitutional disease; in calves, by the mother’s milk. These 
symptoms should be observed carefully, that thrush may not be mistaken 
for Rinderpest. From Foot and Mouth Disease it is known by its not 
being epidemic or contagious, or associated with disease of the feet and 
teats. Thrush usually attacks calves. 
TREATMENT.—If the tongue or mouth is covered with blisters, and 
stringy saliva flows from the mouth, give mercurius every four hours until 
the case is improved. In the first stages, the vesicles may be removed by 
washing the mouth three times daily with a solution of chlorate of potassa, 
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