122 EVERY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER 



I. CORDS. 



Cause. — Calves sometimes are of a sickly or weak 

 constitution, and require care as to the quantity of 

 milk they take at each time ; for if they exceed a 

 proper quantity, their stomachs become disordered ; 

 and the acid formed on the stomach for the purpose 

 of effecting a change in the milk necessary to diges- 

 tion and the formation of chyle, is increased in quan- 

 tity, and altered in quality. In consequence of this, 

 the milk, instead of being changed very gradually, is 

 coagulated, and large indigestible curds are formed 

 from it. This produces almost all the early disorders 

 of calves. 



Symptoms. — Extreme weakness, disrelish of food, 

 sometimes accompanied with griping pains. When the 

 disorder has arrived at a certain height, the muscles 

 are affected with spasms, and drawn into cords^ as it 

 is termed ; that is, they contract with violence, and 

 feel hard and knotted in several parts. These curds 

 frequently remain in the stomach a considerable time, 

 and are sometimes so compressed, as to be absolutely 

 formed into cheese, perfectly solid, and smelling like 

 new cheese, a little sourish. Hence arises the obsti- 

 nate costiveness. Flatulency now takes place, the calf 

 becomes blown up, and affected with flatulent colic. 

 This, if not checked, resolves into confirmed diarrhoea, 

 and terminates in inflammation, from which death 

 generally ensues. 



Cure. — First attack the morbid acidity in the 

 stomach. This is to be done by the following 

 medicine ; 



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