22 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser, 



perature of the body. There is a yellowish tinge of the 

 mucous membranes, costiveness, cohcky pains, full, tense, 

 tender belly, passage of a few dark, hard pellets of dung 

 covered with a mucous film, urine scanty, reddish and de- 

 positing a sediment, pulse rapid and weak, and there may 

 or may not be sore-throat, excited breathing and dischargu 

 from the nose. In the more favorable cases, signs of 

 improvement are noticeable in eight or nine days, and a 

 perfect recovery is made. In the unfavorable, the pulse 

 becomes small, weak and rapid (eighty to nmety per min- 

 ute), the mouth hotter, more clammy and covered by yel- 

 lowish, brownish, or greenish blotches, the abdominal 

 walls more tender, the bowels more irritable, sometimes 

 with a foetid diarrhoea, and the strength is rapidly ex- 

 hausted. The head is constantly pendent, the eye 

 sunken, the expression of the countenance stupid and 

 haggard, and the stupor or insensibility may become so 

 great that pinching or even pricking of the skin may pass 

 unnoticed by the animal. Death usually takes place from 

 the tenth to the twentieth day. 



Treatments English veterinarians rely much on calo- 

 mel, and with a firm full pulse, not too rapid, a general 

 warmth of surface and extremities, a bright eye, cheerful 

 countenance, whitish foetid dung, and much yellowness of 

 the eye, nose, or mouth, a few doses of calomel (10 grs.) 

 and opium (30 grs.), repeated twice daily, may be useful 

 in stimulating the liver and throwing o£f injurious agents 

 fi'om the blood. But it is to be avoided when there is a 

 weak, rapid pulse and great prostration and debility, and 

 in no ease should it be given over two or three days, or 

 until the system is saturated with the drug. Severe cos- 

 tiveness may be obviated by 2 or 3 drs. of aloes and a 

 drachm of calomel, or by a daily dose of 2 or 3 ozs. of 

 Glauber salts until relaxation occurs. Soft feeding and 

 copious injections o* warm water must be contiaued to 

 maintain the bowels in a healthy state. A drachm each 

 of chlorate or nitrate of potassa and muriate of am- 



