In obstinate cases, and in absence of gastric or cerebral congestion, 20 croton beans, or 20 drops of croton oil, may be added to the purgative. Nux vomica stimulates the nervous supply. Enemata may be given freely. Other remedies, stimulating contractility and secretion, are: Eserine, 1½ grains; veratrine, 1 grain; barium chloride, 10 to 15 grains; or pilocarpin, 3 grains, hypodermically. The patient may be days or even a week without alvine discharge and recover. If fever and symptoms of gastric congestion appear, a blister may be applied to the right side over the omasum. Nervous symptoms, such as dilated pupils, blindness, congested mucous membrane, hot horns and ears, drowsiness or excitement, are combated by applying cold water or ice to poll, etc. When free action of the bowels is restored, laxative diet, roots (pulped), green food, plenty of common salt, and free access to drinking water should be prescribed. During convalescence a course of tonics, including nux vomica, is advisable to help in restoring normal gastric functions. ABOMASAL INDIGESTION. Primary indigestion in the abomasum appears to be rare in adults, for until the present time no one has given a sufficiently characteristic description of this disease to enable it readily to be recognised. On the other hand, it is to be presumed, although final proof has certainly not been furnished, that in cases of gaseous indigestion, or of impaction of the rumen, the abomasum, whose physiological action is predominant, must simultaneously suffer. Primary abomasal indigestion, on the contrary, is common in young animals before weaning, so that the condition has been given the name of “milk indigestion.” It could not very well be otherwise, for the abomasum is the only one of the gastric divisions which in ruminants is active during the first few weeks of life. At this period it is larger than the other gastric reservoirs; and the rumen, the reticulum, and the omasum do not undergo great development till weaning begins. =Causation.= Milk indigestion attacks young animals, under varying conditions. In animals suckled by the mother the disease rarely occurs, but yet when the mothers are good milkers, like the Flemish, Norman, Jersey, and Holland breeds, and when there is too long an interval between the feeds, calves, which are naturally greedy, and in addition are hungry, are apt to take too large a quantity of milk—in fact, they often gorge to the fullest possible extent. Owing to its over-distended state the abomasum either fails to secrete sufficient of the rennet ferment necessary for coagulating the milk or secretes an insufficiently active ferment. The first stage of digestion remains incomplete, giving rise to so-called “milk indigestion.”