VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2362, 1 June 1899, Page 46

VETERINARY QUERIES.

[Answered by a duly qim.il'n'J Veterinary Surgeon Queries must bo receiied by MONDAY night to ensure replj i:i the succeeding issue.]

Constant Reader. — An opinion given without a personal examination is, as a rule, not very reliable; but under these circumstances it must be taken for what it is worth. According to the description of your mare's ailment the probability i-3 that she died from a parasitic invasion of the digestive organs. If that were so, piegnancy had nothing to do with her death. (2) Yes; write to JJ.r Kirkcaldy,

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Dunedin. Miner. — Your calf may have been suffering from eating some irritating plant or unwholesome food ; or possibly from hydatid or other tumor in the brain. It would require a careful post mortem examination in both the calf and fowls to give a trastworthy reply as

to the cause of death. W. D. — Apply a little digestive ointment on lint kept in its place with a bandage. Subscriber.— Examine your heifer's tongue and throat carefully for any of the tumors or enlargements of actinomyco&is, and also for wounds or bruises, horn marks, etc. G-ive lib Epsom salts in lib dissolved treacle, and rub tlte -whole swelling with eucalyptus oil. Wash out the mouth with loz borax in a quart of water.