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have heard the results were not encouraging, so much so that no 
further inoculations have been carried out since. 
Curative treatment. — Carbolic acid in 2 -dr. doses, well diluted 
with oil or warm water, is perhaps beneficial in the few cases 
of subacute type in which its adnlihistration is possible. The doses 
should be given at intervals of two or three hours. Cyllin or 
medicinal Izal in similar doses may also be used. 
Other methods of treatment have been advocated, from which 
I have selected those considered likely to prove best which I 
append: — Hyposulphite of soda 4 to 6 ounces mixed with jaggery, 
two or three times a day, or carbolic acid 2 drachms, glycerine -I- 
an ounce^ added to two pints of water, twice a day, or pure iodine -I- 
a drachm, iodide of potash 2 drachms, mixed with jaggery may 
be given twice a day. If the animal cannot be persuaded to take 
these, the rectum should be emptied by hand and an enema of carbolic 
acid 2 drachms, glycerine i ounce, warm water 4 pints, injected every 
four hours. Also hypodermic injection — carbolic acid i drachm, 
glycerine i ounce. A small incision should be made through the skin 
and the needle inserted. 
The tumours should be cut into deeply and extensively by a 
cross incision, freely cauterized with pure carbolic acid and dressed 
with carbolic lotion (i in 40), and on redressing the soiled dressings 
must be placed in a receptacle (never on the ground) and burned 
under supervision. The receptacle must then be thoroughly cleansed 
with carbolic solution (i in 40). 
Note. — The disease is not infrequently met with in horned cattle. The 
vernacular names for it are — G3l6oo^sp {Daung-than-na) j j^oSp (Geik-na) ; 
G00Do5^D {Hauk-na) j 3[^S§^D {Sone-so-na) ; O^S^D {Yine-na) j G33d5^6^o5od5s 
{Oung-nine-nat-pan) ; ^£ooo5 {Hmin-thet). As the disease is so difficult to 
separate from Hsemorrhagic Septicaemia, the Burmans no doubt apply the names 
to both diseases. 
Symptoms.— As is the case with elephants the disease may be met with in 
the internal or external form. In the former death may occur quite suddenly 
without noticeable symptoms. When symptoms are present they are an anxious 
expression, muscular twitching, discharge from nostrils, sometimes blood-stained, 
the animal is blown out, there is often abdominal pain and straining, the dung is 
blood-stained and the urine high-coloured. The gait is staggering. The mucous 
membranes are high-coloured and there is high fever. In some cases the animals 
appear frenzied ; this stage is soon succeeded by marked stupor. In the external 
form fairly hard, doughy, painful, circumscribed swellings which pit on pressure 
occur about any part of the body but more often about the throat, neck, shoulder, 
back and abdomen. The swellings tend to become quite cold and painless. Cold^ 
diffuse, painless swellings under the skin may be observed in some cases. The 
external form is less fatal as a rule. 
