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weeks, and should any new cases appear, the dose may be doubled, and a drachm of iodide of 

 potassium added to it. The stables, yards, etc., where the sick animals have been confined 

 should be thoroughly cleansed and sprinkled with freshly-burned quick-lime, and the wood 

 work, walls, utensils, etc., washed with a solution of chloride of lime, in the proportion of 

 four ounces to a gallon of water. 



Every caution should be used, as this disease is communicable to man; therefore never 

 handle the carcass of an animal that died of this disease, or permit any of the products of a 

 sick animal to touch the hands, as a slight scratch or sore on the hands might be the means 

 of causing inoculation of this disease. The hands should always be washed with a weak 

 solution of carbolic acid after any slight exposure. 



Barrenness. (See STERILITY.) 

 Black Leg. (See ANTHRAX.) 

 Black Water. (See HAEMATURIA.) 



Bloody Milk. In very heavy milkers, it sometimes happens that blood will be more or 

 less mixed with the milk, thus rendering it unfit for use. This may result from various 

 causes, such as the harshness of the milker by hard pulling or pushing, or from the bunting 

 of the calf. It also occurs as a consequence of inflammation of the udder, internal lesions of 

 the teat, milk chamber, or quarter, etc. The treatment to be adopted should of course depend 

 upon the cause of the evil, which should be removed if possible. 



In large milkers the udder and milk veins are distended to their utmost capacity with 

 milk, and any harshness in handling the teats or udder would have a natural tendency to 

 create inflammation in that locality. In such cases, gentle treatment and more care in the 

 milker will procure a successful remedy. Where the difficulty is caused by local irritation, 

 either of the following remedies are very good: 



Three drachms of camphor, three ounces of powdered oak bark; three ounces of 

 powdered ginger. Mix and divide into six doses, giving a dose morning and evening in a 

 pint of gruel. Another remedy ; one ounce and a half of tannin, and four ounces of powdered 

 gentian root; mix and divide into twelve parts, giving one part each morning and evening in 

 gruel the same as the foregoing. Bathe the udder with luke-warm water, and apply extract 

 of witch hazel. The udder should be stripped clean at each milking, and the cow kept in a 

 warm, clean stable, free from cold drafts. Give warm mashes, and easily digested, sloppy 

 food, for a time. 



Bloody Murrain. (See ANTHRAX.) 



Bronchitis. This is an inflammation of the mucous membrane which lines the bron 

 chial tubes, and may be caused by exposure to cold, or from the extension of inflammation 

 that is always present in catarrh. The symptoms are rapid, painful breathing, each expira- 

 tion being made with evident effort; a severe cough, accompanied a few hours after the 

 attack with considerable fever and a rapid pulse. 



The temperature of the body will frequently be from 100 to 105, or even higher, as 

 indicated by a thermometer inserted under the tongue, or in the rectum ; the main portion of 

 the body, the nose and horns, near the head, being unnaturally hot, while frequently the tips 

 of the horns, ears, and legs will be cold. By placing the ear close to the sides and front of the 

 chest, a harsh rattling sound can be heard in breathing. After three or four days, mucus 

 and phlegm will be raised in coughing. The fever will generally subside in from six to 

 eight days in mild cases, but if the inflammation extends to the lungs and pleura, which it is 

 very apt to do, the disease then becomes pneumonia or pleurisy. 



The animal should be put in a warm, comfortable stable that is well ventilated. Pure 

 air, without exposure to draft, is very essential in this disease. Warm, soft food, such as 



