158 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



heated witli the chase. Chickens contract it from faults 

 in feeding and watering, but especially from exclusive 

 feeding on grain and deficiency or in^)urity of the water. 



Symptoms. In the mildest forms are fever, increased 

 temperature, thirst, scanty, high-colored urine, costive 

 bowels, the smaU masses of dung covered with a film ot 

 mucus, tender beUy, small, quick, hard pulse, yellowish- 

 red eyes, hot clammy mouth, furred tongue with redness 

 along the edges, tip and lower surface, impaired appetite, 

 duU sluggish habit, loss of flesh, unthrifty skin, and shght 

 coHcs after meals. 



In the more severe forms aU. these symptoms are in- 

 creased in severity, appetite gone, dullness and depres- 

 sion extreme, head carried low, gait unsteady, breathing 

 excited, a ridge on the tender abdomen as in pleurisy, 

 and more frequent colic, with pawing, uneasy shifting of 

 the limbs, kicking at the abdomen, looking at the flanks 

 and lying down and rising. Diarrhoea may set in and 

 herald recovery, or it may become profuse, bloody and 

 fatal. 



In addition to these general symptoms caitle and s/ieep 

 have impairment or loss of rumination, frequent belch- 

 ing of gas, foetid breath and tenderness mainly of the 

 right side of the abdomen. When due to acrid and irri- 

 tant plants, the back is arched, abdomen tense and tucked 

 up, constipation obstinate, tongue often purple, and the 

 urine high-colored or even bloody. It may prove fatal 

 after a fortnight's sickness. In siuine the afi'ection is usu- 

 ally mistaken for Intestinal Fever which indeed it strongly 

 resembles, but without the ineffaceable black spots on the 

 skin and mucous membranes, and without a contagious 

 principle. In dogs much dullness, drowsiness, restless- 

 ness, with tucked up, tense. Very tender abdomen, violent 

 constipation and very painful and difficult passage ol 

 dung are added to the general symptoms. Vomiting is 

 common in dogs and pigs. Chickens lose appetite and 

 vivacity, droop the head, raise the feathers, move slug- 



