MODERN FARRIER. 93'f 



Should the animal be costive, a clyster should be 

 thrown up, consisting of about three or four quarts 

 of warm water, and half a pound of common salt. 

 A pint of castor oil, also, may be added to the above 

 drink : if this cannot be procured, sweet oil, linseed 

 oil, or even melted lard, may be substituted. 



Dr. Clater and others recommend to take only, a 

 small quantity of blood daily, or every other day; 

 but nothing can be more absiu'd and dangerous. 

 All strong stinuilating or heating medicines, in this 

 disorder, are also highly improper. ' There is an 

 affection of the lungs and parts connected with 

 them,' observes an experienced writer, ' which will 

 not adfuit of copious bleeding. There is not that 

 difficulty and quickness in breathing ; the pulse is 

 weak, but not much quicker than usual : the ker- 

 nals, or glands, about the throat, are often swollen ; 

 sometimes there is a considerable difficulty in swal- 

 lowing, which is particularly seen when the animal 

 attempts to drink; in short, this is nothing more 

 than a severe decree of catarrli or cold : but. even 

 in this complaint, moderate bleeding is necessary, 

 and powerful stimulants are extremely pernicious. 

 When the disease, hoAv^ever, has not been discovered 

 for soipe days, and the animal appears much weak- 

 ened by it, bleeding is of course improper.' 



2. Inflammation of the Stomach. 



Si/mptoms. — All ruminating animals have more 

 than one stomach ; in the cow there are four ; the 

 first is considerably larger than the rest, lies on the 

 left side, and is commonly called the paunch. The 

 food having been sufficiently macerated in this sto- 

 mach, is forced up gradually into the mouth, where 

 it undergoes a complete mastication, which is termed 

 chewing the cud. The food is then again svv^allowed, 

 and conveyed to the second stomach, for the gullet 

 opens indifferently into both. It ends exactly where 



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