. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. ^iM |:i'. I 176 DISEASES OF CATTLE. Symptoms. Diarrhoea lasting for a day or two, followed by constipa* tion; urine of a brown color changing to a deep red, and in tGe last and fatal stages to a black, resembling porter. Post-mortem. Appearances confirm my opinion that it is local con- gestion that gives rise to red water. The liver and kidney being chiefly implicated. Treatment. Give a strong dose of Epsom and common table
. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. ^iM |:i'. I 176 DISEASES OF CATTLE. Symptoms. Diarrhoea lasting for a day or two, followed by constipa* tion; urine of a brown color changing to a deep red, and in tGe last and fatal stages to a black, resembling porter. Post-mortem. Appearances confirm my opinion that it is local con- gestion that gives rise to red water. The liver and kidney being chiefly implicated. Treatment. Give a strong dose of Epsom and common table salt, one pound each, and half an ounce of ginger, dissolved in four bottles of water, and sweetened with molasses. Give mashes pretty well wet, and in a day or two follow by giving powdered ginger root, half an ounce ; powdered gentian root, half an ounce; powdered fenugreek, half an ounce; mix, and make one dose; give one dose twice in the day, till sufficient improvement takes place to warrant no further medicine being given. To hasten recovery, give good and generous feeding, which will also assist in making blood for that which has been lost Reticulem.—The second stomach so called from ret^ or net like, and is sometimes called the honeycomb. Retroflexion of the Womb.—Retroflexion is said to be present when the canal is bent on itself. Retroversion of the Womb.—This term is applied when the canal is straight Rheumatism.—(See Rheumatism in the first part of this book.) Rinderpest.—This is the D\itch name for Cattle Plague. So much do I abhor the employment of such ignorant and unmeaning names, that I cannot but entertain a poor opinion of the scientific attainments of those who constantly use them. The disease will be found treated of under the article Typhus Contagiosus Boum (contagious typhus of cattle). Ringworm.—This is a parasitic disease, and consists in the growth of cellular tumors on the skin. Young animals of one and two years are most subject to th
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