Show LEAD POISONING 6 dr 11 J fredrick head of the veterinary Scle science inee department of the utah agricultural college is authority for the follo following wing article many animals principally cattle are am lost lo leach year as a result of leaving paint cans or buckets around corrals or in places where cattle are kept again where animals have access to garbage barbag e or refuse dumps they often find empty paint receptacles and often get fatally poisoned old paint buckets of cans ol of scrapings of white yellow or red lead in in fact lead of any form that his has been left over from painting is thrown out with the garbage or the manure where it will last for years and finally animals will find it and lick it thus causing their death the sweet taste of some of the compounds seem to offer an attraction to animals there there are two kinds of lead poisoning the acute and the chronic the greater the amount absorbed the more acute will be the symptoms whereas in the chronic form sometimes times very little has bean s absorbed Ps orbed and animals may recover the symptoms of lead poisoning there is a shortening of breath paralysis of the eitrem ties and often of the tongue so the animal is unable to swallow and where it runs a chronic course a blue line is found on the gums along the teeth they may show blindness stupor coma convulsions or delirious excitement fits oc curing at intervals ter vals cattle bellowing pressing the head against solid objects and pushing with all their might often bellowing at the same time animals are at first constipated and may later be affected with a diarrhoea the feces containing pieces of mucus of a black fetid color there is usually profuse salivation slobbering slob bering and mus filar cramps in cases there is suppression of milk and the urine treatment for lead poisoning in the treatment of lead poisoning Miso ning the first object is to prevent further solution of lead in the stomach and intestines arid aria to carry atoff it off sulphate of magnesium epsom salts or other forms of sulphate sulpha ite may form an insoluble with the lead and help carry it oft butof of the digestive tract sometime Some timA dilute sulfuric acid is given gien for the same reason but where a sufficient amount of lead las has been taken in and absorbed there is ia no method of saving the animal and it is ia often a human act to destroy it beware of lead in all its forms where animals may have access to it |