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Calf Dysentery

Categories: Diseases of Animals

I would like to know the reason for bloody discharges from the bowels of

a young six-day-old calf. There is a looseness of the bowels and the

blood is intermingled with the excrement. There is not a profuse amount

of blood, nor is it very dark in color, and it seems to be accompanied

with mucus or light, thick substance.



This is dysentery, due to scours so prevalent in calves. Give 6 ounces

olive oil, 4 drachms bismuth subnitrate and 1 drachm Pearson's creoline.



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