. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. Fk,. j().— Case 1x7, August 15, inthe act of backing in the manner charac-teristic of larkspur poisoning. Animalpoisoned by eating larkspur. (AfterMarsh, C. Dwight, Clawson, A. B. andMarsh, Hadleigh: Larkspur Poisoning ofLive Stock. Bulletin 365, U. S. Depart-ment of Agriculture, September 8, 1916,Plate X, Fig. 4.). Fig. 27.—Case 78, when feeling the worst. Horse poisoned by eating larkspur.(After Marsh, C. Dwight, Clawson, A. B. and Marsh, Hadleigh: Larkspur Poisoning ofLive S
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. Fk,. j().— Case 1x7, August 15, inthe act of backing in the manner charac-teristic of larkspur poisoning. Animalpoisoned by eating larkspur. (AfterMarsh, C. Dwight, Clawson, A. B. andMarsh, Hadleigh: Larkspur Poisoning ofLive Stock. Bulletin 365, U. S. Depart-ment of Agriculture, September 8, 1916,Plate X, Fig. 4.). Fig. 27.—Case 78, when feeling the worst. Horse poisoned by eating larkspur.(After Marsh, C. Dwight, Clawson, A. B. and Marsh, Hadleigh: Larkspur Poisoning ofLive Stock. Bulletin 365, U. S. Department of Agriculture, September 8,1916, Plate XIV,Pig- 3-) ically and this continues for several hours. The special senses seem to beseldom impaired, hearing and sight are both normal. There is slightsalivation. Violent convulsions follow the above premonitory symptoms 64 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY the animal dying in one of the fits. The digestive action appears is a slight lowering of the temperature, the pulse becomes frequentand the respiration rapid and shallow. The nervous symptoms aresimply those of excitement and the appetite is fair. Cattle and horsesare the animals usually killed by eating these plants (Fig. 27). Sheep arerarely injured. Treatment.—The California Experiment Station recommends thefollowing medicine for subcutaneous injection by a hypodermic syri
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