80 MILK FEVER. 



No. 1 in a wine-glassful of water to begin with ; 

 then, in one, two, or three hours after, give ten 

 drops of No. 10 in a wine-glassful of water ; then, 

 after from one to three hours, give No. 1 again as 

 before ; then, after the same., length of time, an- 

 other dose of No. 10, and so on as long as neces- 

 essary. 



In the second place, if the disease advances and 

 the symptoms are these : enormous swelling of 

 the paunch ; frequent, difficult and labored breath- 

 ing ; gurgling and rattling in the throat ; slow, 

 weak, oppressed pulse ; cold clammy skin ; ex- 

 treme coldness of the legs ; lashing of the tail, 

 tossing about of the head and writhing of the 

 body, showing that severe pain is felt. Then 

 give Specific No. 6. 



DIRECTIONS. Give ten drops in a wine-glass 

 full of water, every fifteen or twenty minutes, until 

 the swelling goes down. 



In the third place, if the symptoms just given 

 remain, and the last medicine has had the effect 

 of lessening the swelling ; if, further, the cow is 

 in the sleepy stage, and presenting the following- 

 condition : insensibility to pain; loss of power of 

 seeing, of swallowing, etc.; glassy state of eyes ; 

 open mouth ; inability to hold up the head when 

 it is raised ; general coldness of the body, etc., 

 then give Specific No. 3. 



DIRECTIONS. Give ten drops every fifteen, 

 twenty, thirty, or sixty minutes, according to the 

 violence of the symptoms, until improvement sets 

 in ; then lengthen the time between the doses to 

 two, three, or four hours. 



In the fourth place, if the cow has recovered 

 from all the more urgent symptoms ; if all traces 

 of fever and of the sleepy stage have yielded to 

 the foregoing remedies, but the animal still lies 



