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oil, two pints of castor oil, thirty drops of croton oil, and a wash- 

 tub full of injections. The third niorninjx when I got thore she did 

 not appt'ar anv hcttcr than before ; but soon I saw winkini;^ of the 

 eyes which was a faint izliuinier ; 1 went into the house an<l waited a 

 moment fc^r them to linish breakfast, and we went to the barn, and 

 the old cow was standing up. She turned around and the bowels 

 began to move and we had a perfect freshet of faeces for several da3*s ; 

 it was nearly impossible to control this diarrluea ; but the cow got 

 rid of her disease shortly. One symptom you will observe in all cases 

 of this disease where the cow is severely attacked within six or eight 

 hours, the\' lose their affection for the otfspring and have no inclina- 

 tion to recognize the young ; she heeds not the l)leat of the hungry 

 calf; she is unconscious of her condition, and that alone is a S3'mp- 

 tom that looks grave. When a female loses her affection and her 

 care for her offspring, then you may know that you have a grave case 

 to treat and one that is liable to prove fatal. 



Sec. Gilbert. We would like to hear something about garget. 



Dr. Cressey. True garget, not such as the ox had, is a disease 

 that is otherwise known as mammitis. The mammar}' gland, the 

 udder, is involved in this disease, an infiammatiou of the milk pro- 

 ducing glands. In the majorit3' of cases in the human subject the 

 termination is an abscess, or broken breast. That trouble is some- 

 times speedih' cured, but usually it fades away into a chronic form 

 and lasts a long time. The other three-fourths of the udder gives 

 milk, precisely as one breast of a woman does while the other is dis- 

 eased. One breast of a woman is precisely' homologous to one- fourth 

 of the udder of the cow. In the female of the dog and the hog, you 

 know, we have a division into ten, twelve or fourteen parts. But we find 

 the congestion in the cow mostl}' confined to one-quarter. Rarely is the 

 whole involved. If it is, it may prove fatal. Such is not garget but 

 true mammitis that the cow dies of. Yet when the trouble shall taper 

 down from a mere congestion of the part to the chronic or sub-acute 

 form, and the milk is diminished in quantity and watery and contains 

 cheese-like particles, ''garget proper" is the usual term applied. A 

 large number of cases of garget are owing to injuries ; the toe of the 

 boot and the milking-stool have been the cause many times. Fre- 

 quenth' the careless hired man or your impatient son, anxious to get 

 ofif to the spelling school or elsewhere, has hurried up the milking ; 

 I am sure that a large number of cases are induced by improper 

 milking. The best workman you can hire upon the farm is he who 



