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of pools of liquid manure and of septic mud puddles in the yards 

 and roads. 



In the early stages of the affection the pasterns and interdigital 

 spaces should be thoroughly cleansed and covered with a band- 

 age with a weak solution of acetate of lead, or of sulphate of zinc, 

 or carbolic acid, or sulphate of iron or copper. In the more ad- 

 vanced stages tar water or crude tar will serve a good purpose, 

 or Watery or alcoholic solutions of creolin, creosote, oil of tar, 

 carbolic acid or iodol. When the horn has been separated from 

 the quick, it is usually best to pare away all such, to bevel the 

 edges so as to make them less rigid and more pliant and to dress 

 with tar water and later to cover with undiluted tar and bandage. 



MOIST ECZEMA OF THE TAII,, NECK, CHINE AND 

 DEWIvAP OF CATTIvE. 



Definition. Causes : in work oxen, winter, foul stables ; dairy cows on 

 spoiled fodder or maize, wheat, buckwheat, cotton seed, etc. Contagion. 

 Symptoms : skin hot, thick, tender, exuding, matted hair, vesicles, itching, 

 excoriation, ulceration, bleeding, sloughing. Treatment : Soothing. 

 Cleanliness. Pure air. Tepid sponging. Dusting powder. Clip or shave. 

 Calomel with care. Phenol. Creolin. Silver or copper salts. Tannic or 

 boric acid. 



This is an acute eczematous eruption of cattle beginning as a 

 congestion and swelling of the skin and advancing to an exuda- 

 tion or secretion which bedews the surface with a sticky discharge, 

 and concretes into scabs and crusts. 



Causes. The disease has been mainly seen in work oxen during 

 winter, when kept in close, foul stables and not properly groomed. 

 It is also seen in dairy cows and may be attributed to the indiges- 

 tion and gastric disorders which come from the ingestion of spoiled 

 fodders, or from a too stimulating diet, such as Indian corn, 

 wheat, buckwheat, barley, cotton seed, and the seeds of the 

 leguminosse. lyafosse looked upon it as contagious, but Cadeac 

 denies both this and its alimentary origin. 



Symptoms. The attack is severe, the skin becoming swollen, 

 hot and tender, especially at the base of the tail, on the neck, 

 chine and forehead. Soon the turgid, congested skin exudes a 

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