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castor oil. If the dung is at all hard, or deficient in 

 quantity, let clysters or warm water, with a little 

 sweet oil, be employed. The liniment or embrocation, 

 directed for inflammation of the lungs, (see page 159,) 

 should be rubbed on the loins ; after which, let them 

 be well clothed, or covered with a fresh sheep or lamb's 

 skin. 



When the pain and difficulty, or rather the almost 

 constant straining to stale continues, afler the castor 

 oil has operated, and the bowels have been sufficiently 

 opened, an anodyne clyster may be administered, con- 

 sisting of about one ounce and an half of tincture of 

 opium, in one quart of gruel ; or, from one drachm to 

 two of crude opium, dissolved in warm water, and 

 mixed with gruel. 



If the animal is very thirsty, he should be restrained 

 from drinking ; and what he takes should be impreg- 

 nated with some mucilaginous substance ; an infusion 

 of linseed, or decoction of marsh mallows is very 

 proper. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 



This disease is a kind of madness, attended with 

 ravings and constant watchings ; slow respiration : a 

 strong pulsation in the temporal arteries, and some- 

 times irregular ; running at the nose ; the animal ap- 

 pears in a very fierce state, as if seized with a turbu- 

 lent kind of madness ; the eyes appear much inflamed 

 and ready to start from the orbits; the beast falls 

 down of a sudden, and rises again with the same 

 volatility, until nature is quite exhausted ; a constant 

 trembling and starting of the tendons ; a dry and harsh 

 skin ; a suppression of the urine ; grinding of the 



