Diseases of the Digestive Organs. 147 



INDIGESTION IN WOKKINO OXEN FKOM DRINKING COLD WATER 



This oocurs in hard-working oxen, coming from a dustj 

 road in a hot day and drinking to excess. There are vio- 

 lent colicky pains, uneasy shifting of the hind limbs, lying 

 down and rising, looking at the flanks, and a fullness and 

 gurgling on the right side of the abdomen. It may pass 

 in half an hour to an hour with a free watery diarrhoea. 

 Treatment consists in exercise, walking or trotting, and a 

 stimulating draught — pepper, ginger, fennel, caraway, 

 peppermint, ammonia, alcohol and the like. 



INDIGESTION IN CALVES, LAMBS AND FOALS. WHITE SCOUR. 



This may result from a great variety of causes, such as 

 withholding the first (laxative) milk after parturition, 

 feeding new-born calves on the milk of old calved cows, 

 bringing up foals or lambs on cow's milk, working, over- 

 driving or otherwise exciting the dams, feeding unwhole- 

 some food to the dams, allowing too long intervals be- 

 tween the meals of the young, bringing up on hand on 

 cold or soured milk or farinaceous food, keeping in damp 

 unwholesome pens, or the accumulation of pellets of hair 

 in the stomach. 



Symptoms. Irregular (impaired or even ravenous) ap- 

 petite, swollen, tender, drum-like abdomen, sour eructa- 

 tions, profuse foetid white watery diarrhoea, whiteor gi'ay- 

 ish fur on the tongue, dry, scurfy, unthrifty skin, and rapid 

 emaciation. 



Treatment. Give a dose of 1 to 2 ozs. castor-oil (|- for 

 lambs) with a teaspoonful of laudanum. Then with each 

 meal give a tablespoonful from a bottle of sherry in which 

 \ of the fresh fourth stomach of a calf has been steeped. 

 Or with this give a carminative (1 oz. tincture of cinna- 

 mon) with an antacid (prepared chalk or magnesia 1 dr.) 

 and soothing or anodyne agents (gum Arabic, bismuth,) 

 with, it may be, an astringent (tincture of kino or catechu 

 1 dr.) If there is much tenderness of the abdomen ap- 

 ply a pulp of mustard and water. If yellowness of tlie 



