ANIMAL AILMENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5237, 5 January 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)

ANIMAL AILMENTS.

The best veterinary authorities assert that there is no such disease as hollow horn. That the horns of cattle do become hollow to a degree, under various influences of disease, no practical man will deny. And when such disease is established, all the boring machines in the world will not obviate the difficulty. Old cattle, like old men and women, or any other animals, show age by absorption of bone vitality. CHEST FOUNDER IN THE HORSE. Rheumatism iu the horse is most common in the fore-quarters. Sometimes one fore extremity, nud occasionally both, are affected. Tho following drink may be given night and morning for a week, and repeated every other week : lodide of potassium, 1 drachm ; sulphuric ether, 1 ounce ; cream of tartar, 4 drachms. Give such a dose as.stated in a pint of gruel. Meanwhile, the joints’of-the shoulders may be well rubbed, every night with soap liniment, to every pint of which a quarter of a pint of spirit of hartshorn should be added. Change of food comfortable quarters and blanketing are advisable. MANGE IN HORSES. This disease is contagious; A great deal of precaution, cleanliness, and general painstaking must be observed to prevent its spreading to all the other horses. Keep the infected ones entirely apart from those unaffected. Treatment : Wash the diseased parts once a day with soap and water and rub dry. Take of sulphur, 1 pound; carbolic acid, 4 ounces ; lard, 4 pounds. Mix.thoroughly, and brush a little into the sores once a day. Feed liberally, and administer alteratives and tonics. LOCKJAW IN PIGS, The treatment consists in a dose of 6 ounces or castor oil, with one-half ounce of turpentine ; or, if that cannot be administered, four croton beans, powdered, made into a paste and smeared on the hack teeth, to be licked down at leisure. Besides this, smear on the back teeth; three times a day, one-half scruple of powdered lobelia, made into a paste with molasses. Feed warm, well boiled gruel, from a dish placed so "high as to do away with the necessity of stooping ; remove all straw and other sources of noise and irritation, and keep alone in the quietest and darkest place available. PABAt’LEGIA IN HOGS. Apply over the loins a liniment composed of one part of cantharides, two parts of olive oil, and two parts of oil of turpentine. If the bowels are costive, give frequent salt water injections. A laxative dose of medicine should precede further treatment, , For this purpose give 3 drachms of castor oil seeds, mixed with 8 ounces of rye flour. Mix it iu a quart of sour milk, or some thin gruel, and let the animal ■drink it the first thing in the morning. It may be repeated once a week. The following internal treatment may he repeated twice or thrice daily ; Camphor, 12 grains ; powdered nux vomica, 2 grains ; powdered aniseed and ginger, of each half a drachm. Mix with a little treacle, and smear the dose well hack on the tongue. Feed sloppy or boiled food, and give plenty of sour milk and fruit. Treatment of such cases requires considerable patience. Recovery is slew, and often uncertain,