VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2436, 21 November 1900, Page 54

VETERINARY QUERIES.

[Answered by a duly qualiSea Veterinary Surgeon Queries must be received by MONDAY night to ensure replj In the succeeding issue.] *

Tory, Balfour. — The specimen of lung you sent was too much decomposed for a practical examination. Judging from your v history of the case and the appearance of the part forwarded I should say the symptoms point to broncho-pneumonia being the primary cause of death. ■ Bots. — After reading the symptoms of your colt's ailment, my opinion is that if he had not been operated on he would have lived, or if he had survived the operation he would afterwards have been all right. I fail to see wherein you have the slightest proof that the mxicous membrane of ths stomach was eaten off before he died. If so, he would have shown symptoms of gastritis. If the postmortem examination had been conducted by a qualified expert ho would- probably have shown you conclusively that the bots were only trying to eat their way out, after he died, and escape, when they found their host was unable to keep them either warm or comfortable. In all my professional experience and post-mortem ejwainaAiA«ii» I iiav.e never seen

a single case where a horse had died from the presence of bots either in large or small numbers. Otara.— Probably your lambs are suffering from blood poisoning, in the absence of antiseptic precautions in regard to knives, handling, clean yard, etc., during the operation of tailing, when under these circumstances ewe lambs are as susceptible to the infection as the males.