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DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



The disease appears the first or second day after birth with great 

 prostration and dulness so that the animal remains down and 

 usually dies in one or two days of a profuse, foul, yellowish or 

 white diarrhea. If this is survived pneumonia is apt to follow in 

 a fortnight 



Prevention and Treatment. — The organism apparently enters 

 at the navel of the new-born. If a cow calves in a separate clean 

 barn the disease is not seen in its calf. At calving the hind 

 quarters of the cow should be disinfected and the calf born on 

 carbolized straw. The cord is tied with sterile string and the stump 

 disinfected with pure carbolic and alcohol, or tine, iodine and painted 

 with collodion. After one week the healthy calf may join the herd. 

 One dram sacch. pepsin t.i.d is safd to prevent the disease. Sick 

 calves should be isolated, the premises must be properly disin- 

 fected (p. 282), separate attendants and utensils must be provided 

 for the sick, and the infected feces should be mixed with chlorinated 

 lime and buried. 



Diarrhea in Fowl and Other Birds. 



Exclusive of worms (see p. 187) and tuberculosis, diarrhea is 

 commonly due to intestinal catarrh in fowl living in cold, damp 

 houses. The latter condition should be remedied and great cleanli- 

 ness observed, together with the feeding of boiled rice, boiled milk 

 and giving laudanum in doses varying from 1 to 5 drops. Consti- 

 pation in fowl may be treated by the use of calomel (gr. 1 ) on the 

 food; while small birds may be given Carlsbad salts in drinking 

 water (5 gr. to §ii). 



Diphtheria— Membranous Croup— Pseudo-Diphtheria — Pseudo-Mem- 

 branous Pharyngitis — Roup or Croup. 



An inflammation of the mucous membranes of the mouth, 

 pharynx, nasal cavities, eyes, and intestines of fowl, including 

 pigeons, pheasants, turkeys, guinea fowl and peacocks, with the 



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