Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
HORN SICKNESS.
A Disease of the Blood which Demand:
Prompt and Decided Action.

A Disease of the Blood Which Demands
Prompt and Decided Action.
Years ago a notion prevailed among
stockmen that when the horns of sick
animal were cold at the base it was in
dicative of some disease of the horn, the
nature of which no one professed to
understand. Horn all, according to
Tellor, is now understood to be special
diseased condition of the blood, in
which there is either deficiency in the
amount of blood in the body or dim
mutton OF some of its important con-
stituents, especially the red blood cor
puscles. Such condition may follow an
attack of any acute disease where re-
covery is slow and partial, but generally
results from poor or insufficient food,
exposure aud neglect, foul air, lack of
cleanliness and other necessary condi-
tions of health. The food may be
abundant in quantity, but contain an
excess of water and a deficiency of
solid matter. An exclusive feed of
roots or of green food growing on damp
soils, or the persistent use of single
variety of food, sometimes results in
this depraved condition of the blood
The symptoms are those of great debil-
ity. The animal is thin in flesh and
hide bound, often lousy, with hair
standing staight out from the body or
turned toward the head. The appetite
is ravenous or irregular; the bowels
either constipatcd or too loose, gener-
ally the latter; the faces are very fetid
and accompanied with gas. The pulse
is feeble and the animal easily fatigued.
The lining membrane of the mouth
is unusually pale and the horns colder
than natural, sometimes almost as cold
as those of a dead animal. 1t is this
condition which gives the disease its
name, and the ignorant COW doctor,
with no knowledge of the anatomy and
physiology OF the animal, imagines the
disease confined 10 the horns, which,
under his treatment, will either be bored
with a gimlet and turpentine squirted
into the oritice, or an active plaster will
he applied to the head at their base,
which, as the temperature results from
. low condition of the blood, can have
no beneficial effect. Later symptoms
of the disease are swellings under the
jaws and about the navel, also dropsy
of the belly The cause of the disease
being understood, common sense will
suggest that the first thing to do in the
way of treatment is to see that the ami
NAL is we'll fed, comfortably housed
and kept perfectly clean. The food
should be of the best quality, given in
small quantities and often. If lousy
apply Persian insect powder thorough
ly three or four times every other day.
Give from one pint 10 one quart of liu-
seed oil, varying the quantity to cor
respond to the size of the animal. II
the animal suffers constantly from diar-
rhGa, give powdered chalk one ounce
and bisulphate Of soda one ounce, three
times day, mixed in feed. If this does
not produce favorable effect, mix oil
of turpentine one-third of an ounce
and laudanum one-third of an ounce
with three raw eggs, beat all together
in pint of warm water, and give at
one dose. From two to three doses a
day should be given, according to the
severity of the case, until the desired
effect is produced. After which get a
druggist to mix thoroughly-powdered
sulphate of iron two ounces, powdered
nuX vomica one ounce, and powdered
gentian one ounce. Divide into seven
powders and give one every night in
meal or other feed until all are used,
then omit one week. after which repeat
the powders until seven more are given.
This treatment will effect cure with,
! ont boring ths hornA---M Y Herald