General Management in Disease 



part affected, and may attain an enormous weight 

 through tubercular new growth. The tuberculin 

 test is the one usually employed for detecting the 

 disease in cattle and horses. 



Cattle may be tubercular, and yet remain in full 

 liesh, but cough and wasting are the general 

 symptoms. 



Tympanites {see Hoven) 



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Udder, Inflammation of (Garget) 



This disease affects both cows and ewes, but 

 is commoner in the former. It is also known as 

 Mammitis, and numerous 'forms of the disease 

 exist, but in a small work of this description these 

 differences are unimportant. Inflammation of the 

 udder may be acute or chronic, curable or in- 

 curable. It varies in its course, its causes, and the 

 remedial agents to be employed ; therefore it is a 

 difficult task to lay down any particular rules that 

 the amateur can follow. Tuberculosis of the 

 udder is incurable, and is usually denoted by the 

 knotty feeling at the base of the teat. 



A frequent cause of garget is exposure of the 

 udder to cold, more especially during calving, 

 there being a physiological congestion at this period 

 which may easily pass into one of disease. It is a 

 painful malady, and often started through imperfect 



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