Symptoms

Constant hawking, caused by burning pain in the throat; great thirst, tongue and mucous membrane of the mouth becomes red and swollen; abdomen enlarged, hard, tense, and painful to the touch; severe griping pains; vomiting and purging of brown or bloody matter. Symptoms grow rapidly worse, skin at first hot, but later cold and clammy, prostration, paralysis, convulsions, and death.

Treatment

If vomiting is not free, give an emetic, then quickly pour into the animal what may be within reach, either milk, flour and water, magnesia and oil, or oil and lime water, and send at once for the only true antidote, the hydrated peroxide of iron, for which, if the druggist has not all prepared, he can make a substitute on the instant, by adding to diluted tincture of iron enough bicarbonate of soda, or aqua ammonia, to saturate it; give freely of this.