Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

LOSS OF CUD.
is turned should be short and bare, rather than luxuriant. The overdistended
stomach of thehoven beast will not soon, and in most
cases will never, quite recover its former energy ; and if the beast
be in tolerable condition, it should be sent to the butcher, or it
should be got ready for the market as quickly as that can with
safety be effected.
Sucking calves are occasionally subject to- hoove. Little more
will be necessary in this case than the introduction of the probang.
This distension of the rumen arises from some accidental and temporary
cause, and there is rarely any continued manufacture of gas
within the stomach. Sdme calves become blown from the trick which
they frequently have of sucking each other's pizzle or ear. It is curious
to see with what eagerness they will do this, and how quickly
they blow themselves Up by the air which they draw in and swallow.
The introduction of the probang will be sufficient here, but it will be
prudent to separate the animals.
Homceopathic treatment.— Colchicum autumnale rarely fails in its
effects, and ordinarily it establishes an instantaneous dure. Some-
times, however, it must be repeated two, three, and even four times.
Occasionally the symptoms subside without the animal voiding any
wind. In chronic meteorization, or formation of gas, which is renewed
frequently, colchicum, taken alternately with arsenicum is very useful.
Benefit it is said has been derived from chirm. If rumination be not
re-established at the time the disease is cured, aconitum must be given,
and after some hours, arsenicum. When meteorization, gas, has been
caused not by green fodder, but by some disturbance of digestion,
we must have recourse to nux vomica ; the same substance is suitable,
when the disease is attributable to the animal's having eaten
colchicum in the meadows.
Lastly, when the danger has become so pressing that we are
brought to the necessity of puncturing in order to avoid death, it is,
however, still necessary to administer the colchicum after having
cleansed the mouth carefully ;
must be given.
after some time "\ few doses of arnica
loss or CUD.
The cessation of rumination, designated by tue term " the loss of
cud," is more a symptom of disease, than a disease of itself. It accompanies
most inflammatory complaints, and is often connected
with those of debility. It will be the duty of the practitioner to
ascertain the cause of this suspension of second mastication, and to
adapt his mode of treatment to the nature of that cause. A dose of
physic, with a very small portion of aromatic medicine, will be indicated
if any fever can be detected ; more than the usual quantity of
the aromatic will be added in the absence of fever, and still more,
with tonic and alterative medicine, if general debility be indicated.