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repeated two or three times in the course of two hours, 

 if found necessary. Should the strangury continue 

 after the bowels are emptied, give the following drink. 



Take of camphor, 2 drams ; 



to be powdered and mixed with spirits of 



nitrous ether. 

 Tincture of opium, J ounce ; 



Gruel in which one ounce of nitre has been 



dissolved, • 1 pint. 



Mix. 



Many cows have been lost by allowing them to be 

 too fat at the time of calving; they are then said to 

 die of the milk fever. It is advisable, therefore, when 

 a cow, far gone with calf, is in too good condition, to 

 reduce her by changing the pasture, which is prefer- 

 able to bleeding or physic ; but if she has approached 

 too near her time to admit of this change having any 

 effect, then bleeding will be proper. When a cow, in 

 high condition, appears to be ill and feverish soon after 

 calving, let her be bled to the extent of three quarts, 

 and take a pint of castor oil. Should the fever con- 

 tinue, and particularly if it appears to increase, the 

 animal expressing great uneasiness, with a wildness in 

 her appearance, great redness of the upper eyelid, and 

 quick motion of the flanks, the bleeding must be re- 

 peated. Many cows have been destroyed by the stimu- 

 lating medicines that are commonly recommended and 

 given. — Whitens Treatise. 



Dr. Skellett recommends a similar treatment of the 

 strangury in cows, and adds " The cow should have 

 plenty of diluting liquors, such as warm water, gruel, 

 &c., and mashes made of bran, or pollard, with a little 

 malt. In two or three hours after she has had the 

 drink and clyster, it will be necessary to drive her 



