Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 2 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 2 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
In all cases alike the use of rennet is very advantageous. One-eighth of
a calf’s rennet being steeped in a bottle of sherry wine and the liquid
given to the amount of a tablespoonful (½ oz.) with each drink. This
secures proteid digestion and checks fermentation thereby hindering the
formation of the offensive products which maintain the irritation and
disorder.
INFECTIVE GASTRO-ENTERITIS IN CALVES, LAMBS AND FOALS. WHITE SCOUR.
Causes: early life, exclusive activity of fourth stomach, faulty milk,
absence of colostrum, milk from advanced lactation, milk of other
genus, or altered by excitement, or unwholesome food, excess on hungry
stomach, soured, fermented, feverish milk, putrid milk, leucomaines,
overdistension of stomach, farinaceous food, hair balls, morning and
evening milk, milk after first calf, composition of milk by genus,
ruminant’s milk to monogastric animal, infectious microbes—bacilli,
micrococci. Symptoms: costiveness, inappetence, listlessness, tense
abdomen, acid eructations, fœtid diarrhœa, becoming yellow or white,
general fœtor, staring coat, pallid mucosæ, tucked up tender abdomen,
weakness, emaciation, fever, bloating, frothy dejections, arthritis,
peritonitis, pneumonitis, hepatitis, ophthalmia, laminitis, etc.
Mortality: in foals, calves, lambs. Lesions: gastric and intestinal
congestions, exudations, necrosis, incoagulable blood in foals,
anæmia. Prevention: normal feeding, expulsion of meconium, care of
nurse, adapt composition of cow’s milk to genus of nursling, warmth,
lime water, rubber teat, Pasteurizing, disinfection, separation from
infected animals and places, breed from robust parents. Treatment:
elimination, antiseptics, boiling milk, rennet, ipecacuan,
carminatives, astringents, tar, calomel and chalk, gum, flaxseed, elm
bark.
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