96 TREATMENT OF DISEASES 



making it solid and unyielding, and this must be our object in its 

 treatment. 



Medical men always have this object in view, viz., to produce 

 anchylosis, to hasten ossific effusion, and render the sensitive tissues 

 inseiisibU. 



In the early or inflammatory stage, rest, and cooling lotions are 

 indicated. In the latter stage, counter irritants, such as prepara- 

 tions of cantharides, &c., are generally resorted to. 



The reader, if he be in any way interested in the welfare of 

 "livestock," will probably appreciate the value of correct! informa- 

 tion regarding the nature and cause of the disease. For in the first 

 place, it aims a death blow at ignorance, quackery, and cruelty, 

 practiced very frequently under the guise of science ; between 

 which, however, there exists less affinity than between oil and 

 water. 



In the next place, it enables him to adopt preventives, by which the 

 chances of disease are lessened. 



It teaches him that physical defects are as certainly transmitted 

 as good points, and although bad qualities are not always directly 

 transmitted, yet the day of reckoning appears in a future generation, 

 just as surely as like begets like. 



The most popular remedy, now in use, for the treatment of Spavin, 

 is the acetate of cantharides. The American Magnetic Liniment, 

 manufactured by Messrs. Lord & Smith, of this city, is also a very 

 excellent remedy for the treatment of both Splent and Spavin. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 



Symptoms. — The animal is feverish, his pulse is quick ; he strains 

 when urinating, has a straddling gait, and the urine is high colored, 

 sometimes tinged with blood; when slight pressure is made over the 

 region of the kidneys, the animal manifests symptoms of pain. 



Treatment. — Feed the patient lightly, and give him one wine- 

 glass full of fluid extract of buchu, night and morning. 



HEMATURIA, OR BLOODY URINE. 



This disease proceeds from a disease located in the mucous mem- 

 brane of the kidneys and urinary passage. Occasionally the dis- 

 ease results from plethora, but is often brought on by the action of 

 diuretics. 



Treatment. — Give the patient twice, daily, a wine-glass of fluid 

 extract of buchu, in a pint of infusion of slippery elm. 



