DROPPING AFTER CALVING, &o. 213 



CHAPTER IV. 



DISEASES OF THE URINARY AND GENITAL 

 ORGANS. 



Dropping after calving; milk fever; 

 puerperal fever. 



THIS disease is of frequent occurrence and quite 

 liable to be fatal, unless under proper homeopathic 

 treatment. It is much more prevalent some seasons 

 than others, owing, doubtless, to peculiar atmos- 

 pheric conditions, and is more malignant some 

 seasons than others. The ordinary methods of 

 treatment, purging and bleeding, etc., does more 

 harm than good, and few cows survive the double 

 infliction of dosing and disease combined. The 

 proper use of the Homeopathic Specifics, however, 

 rarely fails to restore even in the worst cases. 



There are certain causes which predispose to this 

 disease ; thus, fat, stall-fed cows are more liable to it 

 than poor or lean ones ; the complaint is more com- 

 mon in the variable weather of early spring and late 

 fall ; a cow once having the disease is more liable to 

 a return than others. The exciting causes are : ex- 

 posure to cold and wet ; driving the cow a long 



