244 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
EXCESSIVE OR DEPRAVED APPETITE. 
Either of these conditions indicates a bad state of the system. The 
animal may eat greedily, and even take uncommon food, but still grows lean. 
TREATMENT.—Give pulsatilla every few hours for four or five days; 
sepia and nux vomica will also be of service. Cina is needed if worms are 
the cause. Give cold water and good fresh food, not in excessive quantities. 
INDIGESTION. 
Indigestion results from greedy eating after a long fast; poor or irreg- 
ular food; abrupt transitions from dry to green feed, or from green to dry; 
insufficient feeding; impure water; pasturing in fields wet with dew; in 
calves, excess of improper food, such as bran and water, when weaned 
too soon, 
Symptoms.—Loss of appetite, cud, and (in cows) of the milk; .aver- 
sion to food; belching; foul, coated tongue; colic; hard and infrequent 
passages of dung; sometimes diarrhea. 
TREATMENT.—Aconite and nux vomica are needed for quick pulse, 
hot horns and ears, and variable temperature of the limbs, given alter- 
nately every three or four hours. For distended paunch give ammonium 
causticum. For much debility and diarrhea use arsenicum; in some cases 
it is better to alternate it with china, especially if diarrhea has stopped. 
If the cud is lost, the dung soft and offensive, and the animal coughs and 
moans, give pulsatilla. Feed bran and boiled oats, and if hay is given, it 
is better to soften it in hot water, allowing the animal to drink the remain- 
ing fluid. Give calves rye bran, or boiled wheat, not leaving any to sour. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH.—GASTRITIS. 
Inflammation of the stomach is a disorder of the lining membrane of 
the fourth stomach (see page 736), generally involving the duodenum, and 
usually accompanying inflammation of the bowels. It is frequently fatal. 
For its causes, read those given under Inflammation of the Bowels. 
Symptoms.—Dejection; scraping the ground with the fore feet; strik- 
ing the belly with the hind feet; groans; lowings; grinding teeth; red 
eyes; looking at the flanks; cold feet, ears and horns; dry muzzle; belly 
swollen and tender; vomiting; diarrhea; milk thin, yellowish, stringy and 
irritating, or wholly stopped, sometimes reddish and offensive; spasm and 
colic, sometimes creating frenzy; loss of appetite and cud; tongue con- 
tracted, straighter and rounder than usual, occasionally yellow or green. 
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