Causes. Symptoms: inappetence, dullness, arched back, colic, irregular
bowels, fever, emaciation. Treatment: diet, green food, milk, mashes,
cleanliness, bismuth, salol, sodium bicarbonate, strychnia, pepsin,
muriatic acid, sunshine, washing.
_Causes._ These are like those producing the acute affection which may
easily merge into this by a continuation of such causes.
The _symptoms_ too are alike. Inappetence, dullness, prostration, arched
back, vomiting, colic, constipation, with alternating diarrhœa. There is
hyperthermia with hot dry snout, thirst, increasing emaciation, and
anæmia.
_Treatment._ An entire change of diet, to green food, roots, fresh milk,
and soft mashes in limited quantity. Allow pure water freely. Adopt all
precautions against contamination of the food by the feet or snout. The
stomach may be quieted by oxide of bismuth (20 grs.) or salol (10 grs.)
two or three times daily, and the tone and secretions of the stomach may
be stimulated by bicarbonate of soda (1 dr.) and nux vomica (1 to 2
grs.) thrice daily. In addition pepsin and muriatic acid may be given
with each meal in proportion adapted to its amount. A life in the open
air, and an occasional soapy wash will do much to restore healthy
gastric functions.