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developed and death may ensue before the medi- 

 cines have had a chance of acting. But even in the 

 advanced stages, the disease may be subdued. The 

 author has had many cases of recovery, where the 

 butcher was in attendance several hours to slaugh- 

 ter the animal, when at the point of death. Still 

 the cow is much more likely to rally, if the disease 

 be combated as soon as it begins. It therefore 

 behooves every farmer to be prepared, and at once 

 to give the medicines when the complaint declares 

 itself. The remedy is Specific No. 1, to be given 

 every half hour, until four doses are given, then 

 once in two hours. 



Attention to the following directions will enable 

 every cow-owner to decide which of those medi- 

 cines is th? most suitable to give in any case of 

 this disease. He must first find out the symp- 

 toms or sufferings of the cow, that is to say, he - 

 is to inquire as to the pulse, breathing, milk' 

 ch?wing of the cud, and general condition of the 

 animal. 



In the first place, then, supposing the following 

 symptoms to be present: Refusal of food ; dull- 

 ness and depression ; hot horns ; dry, hot nose ; 

 scanty urine; confined bowels; quick, full pulse; 

 hurried, heaving breathing; wild, staring eye; 

 stoppage of the milk ; wild and anxious expres- 

 sion of countenance ; paddling and shifting of the 

 hind legs ; eyeballs thrust out ; tossing about of 

 the head ; struggling and uneasiness of the whole 

 body. For these indications of the disease the 

 best and most successful remedies are Specifics 

 No. 1 and No. 10. The author believes that if 

 they were given as soon as the disease becomes 

 manifest, almost every cow would recover. 



DIRECTIONS .Give them in ten drop doses, not 

 both together, but in turns, thus: ten drops of 



