In this disease the primary symptoms are not well defined, but for some considerable time the animal will be found dull and listless, and evince little desire to move; the appetite is very capricious, and at other times entirely lost; the bowels are constipated, and feces that may be passed are hard, dark, and clay-coloured, and seem to be imperfectly digested; the urine is scanty and high-coloured. But upon the whole the disease is obscure, and generally far advanced before medical aid is thought about.

Treatment

Saline medicines must be employed; that is to say, plenty of salt must be administered along with calomel, and frequently repeated, injection thrown up, blisters applied over the region of the liver, and food of an easily digested nature must be given.

The post-mortem appearances are: the liver large, soft, and friable, and frequently attached to surrounding part.