The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . Fig. 120—Lockjaw—First Stages. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 401 and the jaws closed. The membrana nictitans, on lifting thehead, extends almost over the eyeball. The tail is drawn up, theanimal carrying it stiffly. The ears are stiff, and stick straightup; and the nostrils become peculiarly dilated. The piilse variesaccording to the excitement. The bowels are usually consti-pated, the urine scant. If the animal lies down, his limbs standout, stiff as four sticks. If the case is far adv
The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . Fig. 120—Lockjaw—First Stages. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 401 and the jaws closed. The membrana nictitans, on lifting thehead, extends almost over the eyeball. The tail is drawn up, theanimal carrying it stiffly. The ears are stiff, and stick straightup; and the nostrils become peculiarly dilated. The piilse variesaccording to the excitement. The bowels are usually consti-pated, the urine scant. If the animal lies down, his limbs standout, stiff as four sticks. If the case is far advanced, he cannot. Fig. 121—Lockjaw. A well developed case. get on his feet again. When the symptoms are greatly aggra-vated, the animal fights and struggles, the body becomes bathedwith sweat; if the animal is not raised in five or six hours, hedies from exhaustion. Treatment.—Quietude is of the greatest importance. Theanimal should be placed in a darkened, out of the way place. Nopersons except the one to administer medicine or the doctorshould bo admitted, and even they should only go to him threetimes a day. Every drug in the pharmacopoeia has been tried. Experience 26 402 THE STOCK OWNER^S ADVISER. with me lias confined this number to four or five drugs. Ad-minister eight drachms of aloes, and follow with one-ouncedoses of powdered belladonna leaves in a bolus^ or one drachmof the tincture may be used. Place the medicine well back onthe tongue, and it Avill be sucked in. Atropine mav be givenh}^:>odermically in five to ten minim doses. Bromide of potashshould be dissolved in the drinking wat
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