CHAPTER VI. 
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS AND INJURIES. 
SIMPLE FEVER. 
S|ATTLE are particularly subject to a simple type of fever, especially 
; when kept on low, marshy lands. It sometimes develops into a 
\ | typhoid or intermittent form. Its causes are exposure to damp 
ye} and cold, miasma, exhalations from foul water that contains vege- 
table refuse and other influences of the kind. 
Symptoms.—Dullness; languor; thirst; heat of the body and base of 
the horns; quick and hard pulse; refusal of food; heaving of the flanks; 
more than normal pliability of the skin; the nose alternately moist and hot. 
TREATMENT.—Aconite is needed until the fever abates, a dose every 
four to six hours. If the appetite be poor after the fever subsides, give 
nux vomica two or three times a day. Keep the animal in a clean, roomy, 
well-ventilated place, free from excessive litter. Feed lightly on mild food, 
such as bran and oatmeal. Give a fair amount of cold water. 
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INFLAMMATORY FEVER. 
Inflammatory fever often affects cattle in an epidemic form, especially 
those that are young, and is at times attended with great mortality. 
Symptoms.—At first the symptoms of simple fever come on. Then 
the case is generally marked by lameness in one leg, usually a hind one, 
which is swollen; reluctance to move; eyes inflamed and _ protruding; 
tongue dry; nostrils expanded; muzzle dry; neck extended; breathing 
quick and labored, with occasional deep breaths; loss of appetite and cud. 
Later, the animal is seemingly unconscious, moans, gasps, stands still or 
staggers; loins tender and painful; swelling on the loins, back, and shoulders, 
which produce a crackling noise if pressed; weakness increases; the ani- 
mal falls; ulcers on different parts of the body; offensive discharges from 
the mouth and nose; dung very offensive, sometimes bloody; urine high- 
colored, bloody and offensive; death within twenty-four hours. 
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