MILK FEVER, OR 



The above disease is of frequent occurrence, 

 and generally attacks the best and fattest cows. 

 It is attended with great fatality, which induces 

 many farmers to slaughter the animal affected as 

 soon as the disease appears, rather than run the 

 risk of losing money by a depreciation of her 

 value. The old method of treatment, viz., bleed- 

 ing and giving large doses of purging medicines, 

 is of very little use, and often er fails than cures. 

 Almost every farmer can tell of cows that have 

 dropped after calving, but he will remember only 

 a few that have risen after such treatment. Vet- 

 erinary surgeons who practice this useless method 

 of treatment can also speak of the unmanagea- 

 ble nature of the complaint. Thus, Mr. Cart- 

 wright, of Whitchurch, Shropshire, says, in the 

 3rd volume of the Veterinarian, page 451, " Al- 

 though I have seen at least a hundred cases, 

 chiefly in this town, during the last twenty-five 

 years, yet I am almost ashamed to confess that I 

 cannot recall to recollection that I have ever cured 

 a single case ; nor have I ever heard of a case be- 

 ing cured by any of the quacks in the neighbor- 

 hood." 



