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COLD, COUGH AND CATARRH. 



SYMPTOMS. The animal is dull and stupid. Eyes 

 weep ; muzzle dry ; hair sticks up ; appetite bad ; 

 milk fails. Pulse sixty to ninety. Bowels costive. 



TREATMENT. Take from it six quarts of blood. Then 

 a purgative as follows: 



Epsom salts, one pound. 



Powdered caraway seed, half an ounce ; dissolved in a 

 quart of warm gruel. 



Afterward give the following, night and morning 



Tartar emetic, one drachm. 



Powdered digitalis, half a drachm. 



Nitre, three drachms. 



Mix in a quart of warm gruel. If the bowels get cos- 

 tive, repeat the first dose. 



House the animal, and give it a mash of bran, if there 

 be little or no fever. Continue the above treatment, till 

 the muzzle becomes cool and moist, and the pulse down 

 to fifty or fifty-five. 



CHOKING. 



If the object which causes choking be so far down that 

 it cannot be reached by the hand, it must be forced down 

 the throat. To do this, give the beast half a pint of oil ; 

 then put a gag in its mouth ; then take a flexible rod of 

 some kind, (a whip-handle will answer,) pass it gently 

 down the throat till it touches the object. Now press 

 firmly and steadily upon it, until it is removed. 



In Spain, it is a common practice, when a beast is 

 choked with apples, potatoes, and the like, for two or three 

 men to sieze the beast, and lay its neck over a log of 

 wood, and then strike the apple a smart blow with a bil- 

 let of wood, so as to crush it. This must be done cau 

 tiously, however. 



