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TREATMENT.—In the first place give aconite every thirty or sixty 
minutes if the pain is severe; the extremities very hot and cold alternately; 
the pulse full and quick; the body tender. It should be continued at 
longer intervals if the animal improves under it. Next give bryonia; it 
may be alternated with aconite if there be intense pain in the beily and 
costiveness. For heavy breathing, grunting, constipation, dejection and 
‘pains, give nux vomica. Antimonium crudum is desirable for white or 
yellowish tongue. For much vomiting ipecac is needed. Give belladonna 
and hyoscyamus in alternation every two or three hours for delirium and loss 
of consciousness. Opium is needed for great stupor, and when other medi- 
cines fail. For cold extremities and rapid decline of strength give arseni- 
‘cum and veratrum in alternation every two or three hours. No solid food 
should be allowed until improvement has commenced. Before that, give 
small quantities of fluid food, as oatmeal or flour gruel and water. 
WOOD-EVIL.—RED-W ATER.—MOOR-ILL. 
Moor-ill is an inflammation of the fourth stomach (see page 736), 
frequently involving the lungs, and attended with fullness of the mani- 
plies. It is caused by marshy pasturage, frozen roots and herbs, bad winter 
food, and buds of trees eaten in spring after long feeding on dry winter 
fodder. 
Symptoms.—Dejection; fever; stumbling with hind feet; hot surface 
and breath; quick, hard pulse; staring coat; dry nose and mouth; constant 
thirst; eyes and nostrils red; hide-bound; chewing of cud rare and slow; 
scanty, bloody, dry and black dung; scanty, high-colored, bloody and 
strong-smelling urine; offensive milk; depraved appetite, sticks, bones, and 
the like being taken into the mouth; loss of flesh; weak, trembling loins; 
heaving flanks; moans; internal pains; the animal remains still; chest and 
shoulders stiff; marks of congestion of the brain; sometimes diarrhoea, the 
dung being offensive, bloody and blackish; inability to rise; general cold- 
ness; gangrene; death. 
TREATMENT.—Give aconite at the commencement, every two, three, 
or four hours, according to the urgency of the fever-symptoms. Give mer- 
curius for offensive, bloody dung. If the discharges are made with violent 
straining, give mercurius corrosivus. When improvement sets in, give sul- 
phur to complete the cure. For other remedies with their symptoms, and 
for the diet, consult the treatment of Indigestion and Grass Staggers. 
With a view to prevention, improve the drainage of the field, avoid damp 
pastures in the spring until a good growth is afforded, and discard hay which 
has hurtful plants in it. 
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