. Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ... nes disease, a complaint that has been rife in certain districtsfor generations past. The animals are known as wasters, but arequite free from tuberculosis, a thickened intestine and enlarged gall-bladder being found on post-mortem. The real nature of the maladyhas not been known until of late years, and although the animalsfeed and chew the cud fairly well, they gradually lose flesh, becomehide-bound, and finally die from inanition. Young animals undertwelve months old, as well as adult cattl
. Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ... nes disease, a complaint that has been rife in certain districtsfor generations past. The animals are known as wasters, but arequite free from tuberculosis, a thickened intestine and enlarged gall-bladder being found on post-mortem. The real nature of the maladyhas not been known until of late years, and although the animalsfeed and chew the cud fairly well, they gradually lose flesh, becomehide-bound, and finally die from inanition. Young animals undertwelve months old, as well as adult cattle, are affected, the maladyarising from the animals grazing on certain wet, low-lying, un-drained pastures—nursery-beds for the disease-producing germs,which have been left by previously affected animals, or been carriedby floods or other agents. To destroy the germs the land should bedressed in spring or autumn with 5 to 6 cwt. of ground rock-salt tothe acre, and McDougalls health-licks or lump rock-salt laid on thegrazing-ground in various places for the animals to lick; whilst for PLATE XXIV. A. The Egg of the Liver Fluke. i. The Lid or Cap. Cap?? Ud ^ ^°^°« ^ E-^^ -dy for Hatching. .. The |: rYo?,!rspofocy^^di°fdtgrr!roT^r^° ^^ ^^? ^?- --->• F: ^^^t^^ii^l^tZ;:^:^^- ^ ^he You„g R.,ia, THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS 201 treatment I have found nothing to equal 3 drachms of chloride ofsodium (common salt), i drachm exsiccated iron, i drachm nuxvomica, 3 drachms powdered quassia, mixed for one dose for an adultanimal and given as a drench in gruel every other day, to which addI wineglassful of cod-liver oil and 30 drops of oil of cloves orcreosote. A good, mixed, nutritious diet of corn, cake, bran, etc.,should be fed to the patients. Young animals under twelve monthsold when turned out on to strong, w^et, undrained lands in summerand autumn also suffer greatly from intermittent scour. Derange-ment and disease of the liver of various kinds are often also themeans of producin
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