The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner .. . ewlypainted buildings, where paint kegs are left in the fields, wherehorses may get small particles of lead in the food, where softwater runs through lead pipes, or where drinking water is drawnfrom cisterns or wells containing lead. Treatment.— If from acute lead poisoning, give 30 to 60 drops SulphuricAcid, well diluted with water, milk, white of eggs, oils, andLinseed gruel or tea If chronic from gradual lead poisoning,give Epsom Salts in from l4 to i pound doses. Iodide Potassiumin
The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner .. . ewlypainted buildings, where paint kegs are left in the fields, wherehorses may get small particles of lead in the food, where softwater runs through lead pipes, or where drinking water is drawnfrom cisterns or wells containing lead. Treatment.— If from acute lead poisoning, give 30 to 60 drops SulphuricAcid, well diluted with water, milk, white of eggs, oils, andLinseed gruel or tea If chronic from gradual lead poisoning,give Epsom Salts in from l4 to i pound doses. Iodide Potassiumin I drachm doses, two or three times a day is good. If not dueto lead, give the following: Morphine 3 to 5 grains. Subnitrate of Bismuth 2 drachms. Linseed Meal Gruel 1 pint. Give as one dose; repeat three to five times aday. Eggs in milk are also good. For the fever give: Fluid Extract Belladonna i drachm. Fluid Extract Aconite 10 drops. Saltpeter 2 drachms. Give in the gruel three or four times a day. Give water in small quantities frequetitly. Follow recoverywith the tonics as in preceding The. cutalt. BOTS. (I) BOTS IN THE STOMACH. 12, BOTS IN THE DUODENUM. DISEASES OF THE HORSE 113 BOTS. — The common gad-fly (gastrophilus equi) attackshorses in summer, its purpose being not to get food but to depositits eggs. The parts selected being the shoulder, base of neck,and fore legs, especially about the knees, for in these places thehorse will have no difi&culty in reaching the eggs with his the animal licks the spots where the eggs have beendeposited, the heat and moisture hatches them out, and the littlebots are transferred to the stomach, where they attach themselvesto the coat of the stomach by two little booklets on the head,and there remain for several months until they reach their growthas bots; they sometimes attach themselves at other points alongthe digestive tract, as in the pharynx, or in the intestines. Whenthis time arrives, generally in th
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