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in patches ; a foetid saliva drivels from the mouth and a stinking diarrhoea 
succeeds the costiveness. Death usually ensues from the eighth to tha 
tenth day, preceded perhaps by convulsions or signs of suffocation. 
The treatment is to clean the bowels with the following : 
No. 28. 1 Pint olive oil, 
1 Oz. laudanum. 
In eight or ten hours, if it do not operate, give another. Follow this 
with diuretics, sweet spirits of nitre in half-ounce doses, and also with 
antiseptics, potassa chlorate, in doses of one-quarter drachm. Wet cloths 
should be kept on the head ; the mouth and nose sponged with quite a 
weak solution of carbolic acid. Give as food only soft mashes. 
Lice on Cattle. 
All cattle, and especially those in poor condition, are liable to attacks of 
lice of various species, which will propagate very rapidly, soon infesting other 
stock and even the stables and barns themselves. Treatment must, therefore, 
be directed promptly at the animals, and their surroundings also. Stabler 
should be cleaned and whitewashed. Their scratching places should be coated 
With petroleum or coal tar. 
For treatment of the cattle, poisonous substances must be shunned carefully, 
its their habit of licking themselves would result in their injury. One of tha 
simplest preparations is a strong solution of tobacco leaves saturated with 
rock salt. This may be applied thoroughly on several occasions at intervals 
n f three or four days. Repetition is necessary to the extirpation of tha 
young, which may be hatched after the first application. If alcohol be used 
in the decoction of tobacco leaves it will destroy the nits as well as the licty 
and prove the quickest relief from the pests. 
A good preparation which will remain well upon the hide is this: 
Linseed oil, 4 parts. 
Common creosote, 1 part. 
An ointment of cayenne pepper, or Scotch snuff mixed with hog’s lard, well 
rubbed in, will be found very effective. Especially look out for vermin ia 
young stock, or stock in poor condition. 
Fouls in Cattle. 
Foul claw, or foul in the foot, is a disease characterized by inflammation 
#nd suppuration of the substance in the cleft of the hoof. Sometimes it 
extends to the entire foot, and even includes the whole leg, causing fever, 
failure, and death in some cases. Usually it affects the hind feet. Foreign 
•ubstauces between the claws, excessive weight and strain upon the foot, or a 
ecroi'ulous condition of the system may cause this trouble. Its best treatment 
•onsists of careful cleansing of the sore ; poulticing, if much inflamed, and 
