A STUDY OF SALT SICK CATTLE. 
987 
Some were inclined to think it was too much salt, while 
others thought it was for the want of salt. 
The flat woods and low lands seem to be to a great extent 
exempt. 
No. 3—A typical case, with constipated bowels, high fever, weak heart action, no appetite. 
Cured in one month, with solution of lime and iron. 
Cattle only are affected so far as I can learn—whether other 
animals are or are not sometimes affected, might be open to 
controversy. Young animals are perhaps more susceptible than 
the older cattle. The organs affected are in almost every case 
the small intestines. Sometimes the stomach, but in most of 
the post-mortems we find more or less ulceration of the small 
intestines. The spleen wasted away, blood deficient in red 
No. 4.—A typical case wiih cerebral symptoms, high fever, weak heart action, bowels con¬ 
stipated, no appetite, constant gritting of teeth. Condition corrected in two weeks with the solu¬ 
tion. 
