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low condition, it had better be omitted. The following 

 anodyne drink is to be given : 



Tincture of opium, i ounce ; 



Spirit of nitrous ether, 2 ounces; 



Water, 1 pint. 



Mix for one dose. 



When the animal has been kept sometime on dry- 

 food, and is apparently costive, relief can only be ob- 

 tained by some laxative drink, like that first above 

 mentioned, and clysters. Bleeding, however, must not 

 be omitted, particularly if the pulse is quickened, the 

 under surface of the eyelid redder than natural, and 

 the breathing disturbed. If the laxative prove in- 

 effectual in removing costiveness, it should be re- 

 peated. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 



" The structure of this organ in horned cattle and 

 sheep, is different from that of the horse; the latter 

 has no gall bladder, but in the former there is one of 

 considerable size. It is on this account, perhaps, that 

 cattle are more subject to diseases of the liver than 

 the horse. I do not believe that inflammation of the 

 liver often occurs in so acute a form as to require 

 bleeding largely ; it is more commonly of a cronic or 

 slow kind, causing a defective action in the organ, in 

 consequence of which an unhealthy kind of bile is 

 formed, which* plugs up the ducts of the liver, and 

 causes a derangement in the organs connected with 

 it." — White's Treatise. 



The symptoms of this disorder, according to Dr. 

 Peck, are difficult breathing ; swelling about the short 



