DISEASES OF CATTLE.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 1 October 1913, Page 1

DISEASES OF CATTLE.

H2EMALBUMINUBIA, or BED

WATER,

is either post-parturient or arises from eating-bad food. The post-parturient comes on from eight to fourteen days after, parturition, the other may com© - on at any time. Symptoms are slight purging, faeces black, loss of milk, shrinking of vulva, a dicrotous pulse, and red or black urine. It is a disease of poverty in general, but occasionally it is due to intrinsic causes. The albumin of the blood is not in a fit state for the nourishment of the tissues, and is cast put of the system by the kidneys. Treatment. Changes of food to the utmost extreme. Give boiled barley, eggs and milk ad libitum, tr. ferri, perchlor, alum, bole, sulphate of iron, or chlorate of potassium, and allow fresh air. Acid sulph dii or commercial is also a good and cheap cure. Sometimes after parturition the liver goes wrong and the urine is tinged with bile ; dont mistake this for red water. In red water due to bad food the chief symptom is the sudden change in the colour of the Urine, frequently obstinate constipation, and always rapid wasting. When pressed over • the withers, the cow, crouches, and" sometimes shows tenderness over the loins as well. Treatment. After an interval in which, tho advanced school of veterinarJOTW^con^' demned the farrier's methods and recommended tonics and stimulants from the commencement, a return has recently been made to the old plan, as a German scientist has discovered the advisability of giving a bold dose^of aloes and salts, such as our old cow leoches gave two hundred years ago^ As much as two ounces of aloes is often givon with pot. nit. 1 ounce and mag. sulph. -half a pound or Magnes Sulph, 1 pound , Pulv Aloes, 1 ounce I?ulv Zingib, 1 ounce To be given in not less than three quarts of oatmeal gruel. A tonic stimulant of proved value is the following :— JEther Sulph, J ounce Tinct Gentianae, | ounce Tinct Zingib, i ounce ' To be given once or twice a day in linseed tea. An aperient must be given at the outset.