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ive, and in most instances a cure, of the maladies which are 

 usually most fatal to them, from too full habit. 



When Oxen are long and hardly drove in muddy roads, 

 particularly where the soil is calcareous, they are liable to 

 a soreness between their claws. This will make the beast 

 lame ; and, when discovered, the part should be cleansed, 

 and healed with some proper ointment. Sometimes, from 

 inattention to this, the part becomes horny; in this case, 

 the hard parts must be cut away, and the wounded flesh 

 cured. 



A general indication of health in Ntat-cattle is a moist 

 or wer nose, and when this is found dry, it is a certain 

 symptom of disease of some kind or other. 



Cows have some diseases which are peculiar to them; 

 such as those attendant on calving, and such as affect the 

 udder, &c. 



The udder is divided into as many apartments as there 

 % are teats, so that if one or more of these are diseased, this 

 does not affect the rest. The milk of one teat may be 

 good 4 and that of another bad. The udders of Cows may be 

 injured in various ways, and swellings and inflammations 

 are the usual consequences. These must be removed, or 

 the beast will be in danger. 



Mr. Deane^ speaking of hard swellings in the udder, 

 which he calls the garget, recommends making a rowel or 

 seton in the dewlap, and inserting therein a piece of the 

 root of mechoacanj as large as a nutmeg, with a string fast- 

 ened to it, so that it may be drawn out when the cure is 

 effected ; and this, he says, will cause a revulsion of the 

 humor in the udder into the orifice in the dewlap, where it 

 will be discharged. When the cure is effected, the piece 

 of root is to be drawn out by the string. Probably a com- 

 mon rowel, placed in the breast or dewlap, would answer 

 the same purpose. 



Where hard tumors have formed, the Compilers of * The 

 Coin file te Grazier 9 recommend, to take of common he ra- 

 le* k (conium maculatum) dwarf or roundleaved mallow 

 (malva rotundifolia) and common millilot (trifolium milli- 

 lotusj of each a handful, and boil them in water; with this 

 wash the tumor, after it has opened ; the water to be as 

 warm as the beast can bear it ; and, after thus cleansing the 

 part, cover it with a plaister of basilicon ointment 



The following- is also recommended in the lastmentioned 

 work, in obstinate cases of ulcerated udders: Take gum- 

 ammoniac, gum-galbanum, casiilesoap, and extract of hem- 

 lock, of each one ounce; form them into eight bolusses, anil 

 give one every morning and evening. 



It is observed in the same work, that internal remedies 

 are always necessary where the udder and teats are COR- 



