. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. ,i"i;j m t Ja I-1. 166 DISEASES OF CATTLE. way, burst or rupture; if this does not happen shortly, the brain becomes affected, and the beast dies unconscious. The disease runs its course with fearful rapidity. Treatment. At once plunge a dinner knife, well sharpened, into the side, or at equal distance from the haunch bone and short rib, on the left side of the animal. Veterinary surgeons use a trocar for this purpose,
. Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming [microform] : in two parts. Veterinary medicine; Horses; Horse-training; Médecine vétérinaire; Chevaux; Chevaux. ,i"i;j m t Ja I-1. 166 DISEASES OF CATTLE. way, burst or rupture; if this does not happen shortly, the brain becomes affected, and the beast dies unconscious. The disease runs its course with fearful rapidity. Treatment. At once plunge a dinner knife, well sharpened, into the side, or at equal distance from the haunch bone and short rib, on the left side of the animal. Veterinary surgeons use a trocar for this purpose, and every farmer should have one also. If the case be not a severe one it may be entrusted to time, nature and medicine. Give half a pound of table mustard, and an ounce of the chloride of lime, mixed in as little cold water as will float the mustard out of the bottle, and down the throat of the animal. Or, instead of the mustard and lime, give one ounce of recently powdered carbonate of ammonia in cold water. Dash- ing cold water over the loins of the beast often cures the affection, by inducing reflex action of the nervous centres of the body. Sometimes we see a chronic form of this complaint, occurring at intervals, owing to a debilitated condition of the walls of the rumen, which is cured by the following powder, given morning and night in the feed : Powdered ginger, half an ounce ; gentian, half an ounce \ fenugreek, half an ounce ; mix, and giv3 in one dose, and continue it for a few days. Hydatids in the Brain.—This is a parasitic disease—a worm found floating in a serous fluid, surrounded by a sack or small bladder, and situated generally on one side of the brain, and imder or near the base of the horn. Cause. This affection is caused by the animal eating with the feed or grass, some of the ova or eggs which have been dropped from dogs, affected with tape-worms. Symptoms. The affected beast will be observed in the early season of the disease to be affected in on
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