The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-13
CURE FOR PINK EYE.
stat5 Agricultural Station Sends Out Cures
| OF Great Interest to Farmers of County.

oosstN agricultural station SENDS Gut cures
OF Great Interest to Farmers of County.
so-called ''pink-eye properly term
ed contagious ophthalmia" has APP
peared among cattle in this and other
states and presents the following
effects: NJ.
SYMPTOMS Adult, young cattle
and calves first show swelling of
the eyelids accompanied by weeping.
kedness Of the membranes of eyelids
aud "haw' becomes apparent, crea my
discharge follows and in three or four
days clouded spot shows in center of
eye and gradually spreads until sight
OF &c becomes milk colored. Chang
l1g from milk color to pear1-tint eye
IA become yellow, bulge, show blood
satt streaks, form an abcess> and burst
leaving ragged ulcer, or commence
tosclear up and finally recover Slight
ulcers may heal by granulation, but
extensive ruptures and ulcers often
Lead to loss Of sight. Fever and some
loss of appetite is present, especially
in young cattle. for week or more
from time of first attack and dairy
cows may shrink in milk production.
TREATMENT. The disease being
Catching" and doubtless due to a
germ witch leads to its spread from
one animal to another, effected cattle
should be separated from unaffected;
eyes Of latter should be washed once or
twice week with a solution of two
drachms of boracic acid in pint of
water as a possible preventive and
pastures bordering on rivers, ponds or
sloughs should be abandoned as the
disease seems to be most liable to at
tack cattle grazing on such low wet
ground. Place effected cattle in dark
ened shed or stable. Give each adult
animal one pound dose of epson salts
with one ounce of saltpeter and one
ounce of ground ginger root in two
quarts of warm wafer as one dose and
follow with tablespoonful of saltpeter
twice daily in drinking water or soft
food. Younger cattle should have the
same medicine in smaller doses ac-
cording to age and size. While under
treatment do not. feed grain but give
soft and green food; allow all the cold
water animals will take. At the COM
rnencement of an attack puff between
eyeballs by means of clean insect
powder bellows a mixture of equals
parts of finely powdered ca1ome1 and
Doracic acid; or cover eyes with soft
cloth to be kept wet with 10000 so.
luton of bichloride of mercury (cor.
lrosive subliinate). This treatment
may prove sufficient in ! ma iority of
cases but should the disease persist
and aggravate, substitute for above
lotion one, consisting of drachm
each of sulphate of zinc aud fluid ex-
tract of belladonna leaves with 20
drops of carbolic acid in a quart of
clean, soft water with which to keep
cloth over eyes continually wet. When
inflammation subsidies should eye remain
milky appearing paint once daily with
1900 solution of bichloride of mercury
or per cent solution of boracic acid.
In bad cases which are tardY in re-
spending to treatment give-except to
pregnant cows-one drachm of iodide
of potash twice daily for adult ami
NAL and from ten to twenty grains for
calves or yearlings, continuing its use
for one week. Ragged ulcers may be
with benefit painted with a solution of
three grains of nitrate of silver in an
ounce of distilled water two or three
times a week. Lastly, quarantine
animals bought at stock yards shipped
in or from effected herds.
A. S. ALEXANDER, Veterinarian,
Wis. Agricultural Station.