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Show iiww - - Lead or Paint Poisoning Dr. H. J. Fredorick, head of tho Voterlnary Science Department of tho Utah Agricultural Collego Is authority au-thority for tho following article: Many animals, principally cattle, aro lost each year as a result ot leaving paint cans or buckets around tho corrals or In places whero cattlo aro kept. Again, whero animals havo access to garbago or refuse dumps thoy ofton And empty paint roceptaclcs and often get fatally poisoned. pois-oned. Old paint buckets or cans or scrapings ot white, yellow or ' rod lead In fact lead of any form that has bcon left over from painting is thrown out with tho gartjago or tho manure whero It will last for years, and finally animals will ml It and lick it thus causing their death. Tho sweet taste of somo of the compounds seem to offer an attraction to animals, ani-mals, Thero aro two kinds of lead poisoning pois-oning tho acuto and tho chronic. Tho grcator tho amount nbsorbed tho moro acuto will bo tho symptoms, whereas in tho chronic form somo-times somo-times very Httlo has been absorbed and animals may recover. Symptoms of Lead Poisoning Thero is a shortening of breath, paralysis of tho extremities, and often of-ten of tho tonguo, so that tho animal Is unablo to swallow, and whero It runs a chronic courso a blue lino is found on tho gums along tho tcoth. Thoy may show blindness, stupor, coma, convulsions, or delirious ox-cltomcnt, ox-cltomcnt, fits occurring at Intervals, cattlo bellowing, pressing tho head against solid objects and pushing with all their might often bellowing at tho samo tlmo. Animals aro at first constipated and may later ho affected with a diarrhoea, tho feces containing pieces of mucus of a black, fetid color. Thcro Is usually profuso salivation (slobborlng) and muscular cramps. In cases thero Is a suppression ot milk and urine. Treatment for Lead Poisoning In tho troatmont ot lead poisoning tho first object is to prevent further solution ot load -In tho stomach and Intestines and to carry It oft. Sulph-ato Sulph-ato of magnosIum( epsom salts) or other forms f sulphato may form an Insolublo with tho lead and belp to cany It out ot tho digestive tract. Sometimes dlluto sulphuric acid Is given for, tbo same reason, but whero a sufficient amount of lead has been taken In and absorbed there ig method of saving tho animal and It Is ofton a human act to destroy u Bewaro of lead in all its for'm, whero anlma'.s may havo access to it |