] 52 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



Btomacli. It is therefore mostly a symptom of other dis- 

 eases, and in many cases of gastric irritation is a means 

 of relief. When due to direct irritation of the stomach 

 favor it by giving tepid water freely. When emptied, the 

 stomach may be soothed by ice, iced water, prussic acid, 

 creosote, carbolic acid, bismuth, nux vomica, lemon-juice, 

 camphor, etc. Gum and albumen may often be given to 

 sheath the irritated organ, and a blister may be placed 

 on the pit of the stomach. 



DEPRAVED APPETITE. 



Seen in dyspeptic horses, eatiag earth, lime, etc., in rabid 

 dogs swallowing aU sorts of things, and in cows eating 

 chalk, earth, sand, gravel, wood, leather, iron bolts, and 

 articles of clothing, hair, bones, lead, etc. In many cases 

 what is begun as a habit is continued as a disease, the 

 foreign bodies iu the stomach deranging the digestion and 

 keeping up a morbid craving. Pregnancy, tuberculosis, 

 and a deficiency of phosphates in the soil and food are 

 occasional causes in cows. The habit should be checked 

 by keeping tempting objects out of reach, dealing with 

 tuberculosis and chronic gastric catarrh as advised under 

 those heads, with a deficiency of phosphates, by an 

 abundant artificial feeding on sound grains and a course 

 of tonics, and with indigestible bodies in the stomach, by 

 a careful feeding to prepare the beast for slaughter, or thai* 

 failing by opening the paunch on the left side and remov- 

 ing the ofl'ending agent (see impacted paunch). 



FOEEIGN BODIES IN STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 



These may be taken in by accident with the food or 

 may be deposited from it in the form of calculi or con- 

 cretions. 



Cattle sufi'er much from sharp-poiated bodies like nee- 

 dles, pins, nails, etc., taken with the food, and afterward 

 making their way to the heart which they penetrate, causing 

 sudden death, or in more favorable cases making their waj 



