DISEASES OP THE DOITESTIO ANIMALS 781 



FoOT-AND-MoUTH DiSEASE. EpiZOOTIC EcZEMA. 



In Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Goats. — The only rational treatment 



is prophylactic. Strict quarantine of infected premises and animals, 



and kill all exposed and diseased animals as soon as possible. After 



diseased animals removed, disinfect premises, 725. Healthy animals 



not put in disinfected premises for month. Burn or bury dead 



carcasses and infected manure. Older treatment follows. Diet: 



Gruels, mashes, green fodder, pulped roots. Wash mouth often 



with saturated boric acid, hydrogen dioxide, or potassium chlorate 



solution on swab. Drinking water constantly at animal's command. 



Clean, dry bedding. Feet washed with 2 per cent, lysol or creolin. 



Compresses wet with white lotion, ITS, containing phenol, 1 per cent., 



constantly kept about coronets of cattle. Tar also applied to feet. 



Carbolized vaseline is used on the teats. Milk of patients unfit for 



food; boil 20 minutes before feeding it to animals. Two weeks 



after recovery, cleansing and disinfection of premises, 725. During 



enzootic, inoculation of saliva of patient into well animal will cause 



a milder form of disease. 



Fly-Blow in Sheep. 



Dress wounds with tar, and 2 per cent, solutions of lysol or 



creolin. 



Foot-Rot in Sheep. 



Segregate newly bought animals for three weeks. Isolate patients 

 and treat by driving (thrice weekly) through foot baths of creolin 

 3 per cent, or ferrous sulphate, 4 per cent., or milk of lime. Fur- 

 nish clean litter and dry quarters. If severe, treat feet locally 

 by removing dead horn, applying carbolic acid in glycerin (1-10), 

 330, or iodine or creolin ointment (5 per cent.). Cauterize fung- 

 ous growths with pure phenol and protect parts with tar. In the 

 form originating in bruises of sole, and purely traumatic, treat- 

 ment consists in putting sheep on soft, dry pastures, cutting away 

 dead horn and applying tar. 



Founder. See Laminitis. 



Foreign Bodies in Alimentary Tract. 



mgf--When swallowing of foreign body is known to occur, give 

 bread and porridge as diet. Cathartic 36 hours after ingestion, 

 providing it is a blunt body. Remove from within anus if symptom 

 of straining and lodgement there. Abdominal section, if body not 



passed. . . 



In ruminants the treatment is purely surgical. 



^-"^ iUd"^et!rtyTtaSt^Ind UttS^Tmove aU loose ho. and ex 

 pose sensitive diseased parts for treatment. Apply carbolic acid 



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