I4 2 DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



cent, fat is often too rich and the calves of cows giving such milk 

 must be provided with another mother or receive the milk diluted 

 with water. Diarrhea is common in these cases. Feeding meal as 

 an addition to skim-milk at a too early period before the salivary 

 and pancreatic ferments are fully secreted will lead to indigestion 

 and diarrhea. 



Treatment. — Give only warm, fresh, clean milk, or, if skim- 

 milk used from a creamery, it should be scalded. Calves do not do 

 so well on sterilized milk for a long period. Administer ^4 ounce 

 of Glauber's salts and feed lightly with half each of scalded milk 

 and water until digestion is restored. The feeding utensils must 

 be scalded after each feeding and the intervals of feeding regular. 

 (See Enteritis in Calves.) 



Acute Indigestion in Swine — Acute Gastritis in Swine. 

 — Causation. — Ingestion of irritants, as indigestible objects, poisons, 

 paint, alkalies from hotel washings, decomposing swill, parasites, 

 and secondary to infectious diseases, etc. 



Symptoms. — The patients are in pain, grunt with distress and 

 stand with the back hunched, are dull and do not eat. The belly 

 is tender, and vomiting, diarrhea or constipation may be present. 



Treatment. — The indications are to empty the digestive tract 

 and give proper food thereafter. Five grains each of calomel and 

 tartar emetic, or 20 grains of ipecac with 5 grains of calomel, may 

 be given rolled in a piece of meat. Diarrhea is a natural remedy, 

 but, if it continues, bismuth subnitrate one-half dram, or chalk two 

 drams, may be given three times daily with the food. This should 

 be of a soothing character, as boiled milk or buttermilk, boiled gruels 

 or linseed tea. The feeding utensils, trough and pen must be thor- 

 oughly cleaned and proper diet for the future enforced. 



Acute Indigestion of Dogs — Acute Gastro-Intestinal 

 Catarrh. — This condition is caused by overloading of the stomach, 

 due to infrequent meals, to swallowing of foreign bodies, as bones, 

 and to worms, especially in puppies, and to indigestible and putrid 



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