170 EVERY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER 



animal : the greater part of the condensed air will be 

 speedily discharged through the tube : and should any- 

 ardent spirits, or other liquor calculated to check the 

 fermentation, be deemed necessary, it may be safely 

 injected through this pipe. In short the flexible tube 

 here described, has been found of infinite service in 

 saving the lives of cattle and especially of sheep, when 

 subject to similar disorders, or any other swelling pe- 

 culiar to those creatures. (See Domestic Encyclope- 

 dia, Art. Cattle.) 



The 33d vol. of Mr. Young's Annals of AgricuU 

 ture, announces the following recipes as a specific for 

 this disease, even in the most desperate cases ; effect- 

 ing a cure within the short space of half an hour. 

 Take three quarters of a pint of olive oil, and one 

 pint of melted butter or hog's lard ; give this mixture 

 by means of a horn or bottle ; and if it does not pro- 

 duce a favorable change in a quarter of an hour, re- 

 peat the same quantity and walk the animal gently 

 about. For sheep attacked with this malady, the dose 

 is from a wine glass and a half, to two glasses. 



The following simple remedy we have been told is 

 effectual, but cannot say to what extent it may be re- 

 hed on. Make about a pint of lie, either with hot 

 embers thrown into a sufficient quantity of water, or 

 by dissolving therein about an ounce of pot or pearl 

 ash, and turn it down the throat of the ox or cow af- 

 fected. A proportionably less quantity is said to an- 

 swer for a sheep. This medicine, we are informed, 

 operates by neutralizing and absorbing the carbonic 

 acid gas in the stomach of the creature, which causes 

 the swelling and other symptoms to subside. We 

 wish this remedy might be tried, and its results made 

 public. We suspect, however, that in extreme cases, 

 it will be necessary either to make an incision, or 



