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(5i) three times daily is recommended. Ammonium 

 carbonate (3vj) in a quart of cold water every four hours 

 is valuable. Once the bowels are open nerve tonics and 

 bitter stomachics with alkalies should be prescribed as in 

 impaction of the rumen. 



In obstinate cases the administration of large quantities 

 of water through the stomach-tube or a trocar inserted 

 into the flank is recommendable. To the water may be 

 added an antiseptic or hydrochloric acid. Occasionally 

 obstinate cases are relieved by rumenotomy, a partial 

 removal of the contents and the irrigation of the rumen and 

 abomasum with normal salt solution. 



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Traumatic Gastritis. 



Definition. — ^An inflammation of the stomach (rumen or 

 reticulum) due to foreign bodies ingested with the food. 



Occurrence. — The disorder is common in cattle, especially 

 dairy cows the property of the poorer, shiftless dairymen 

 who permit nails, wire, needles, bolts, etc., to accumulate 

 in the feed troughs or where the cattle feed. Cows with 

 woman attendants frequently swallow darning needles, hair- 

 pins, open safety-pins, etc., which come from the clothing 

 and hair. On arms where the hay is baled for market, 

 pieces of baling wire are commonly picked up by the cattle. 

 Where the herd is grazing on flooded pastures or must drink 

 from shallow sandy springs large quantities of silt and sand 

 will be ingested. 



Cattle which have developed the habit of licking stable 

 walls, partitions, etc., which may develop into the vice 

 known as "pica," take into the stomach considerable 

 deleterious foreign matter. 



Sometimes masses of hair (wool in sheep) are licked off 

 other animals, or usually due to some itching skin lesion, 

 from the patient itself. These accumulations form hair 

 (or wool) balls in the stomach. 



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