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constitutions, and lays the foundation of a train of 

 disorders ; the nervous system becomes depressed, the 

 digestive organs impaired, and the strength of the 

 whole body weakened. In this state of comparative 

 enteeblement, they are susceptible of nervous diseas- 

 es ; or, in other words, more liable to their attack. — 

 This is what in medical language is called *' pre-dis- 

 position to disease," and may be considered the re- 

 mote caute of almost every complaint to which they 

 are in after life subject. Cleanliness above all things 

 should be attended to, and the cattle rubbed down and 

 cleaned froin all filth as the horses usually are. De- 

 pend upon it, they will reward you full as much for 

 your labor. We have seen the most astonishing im- 

 provements made in cattle thus treated and otherwise 

 regularly attended to, as above suggested. 



' YELLOWS, OR JAUNDICE. 



This disorder often occurs to neat cattle, and espe- 

 cially to milch cows ; it attacks them mostly in the 

 spring, or autumn ; and consists of a disordered state 

 of the third and fourth stomachs, and sometimes of the 

 first. 



Symptomso — In the first stage of this disease, the 

 whites of the eyes appear of a yellow tint, and as it 

 increases, the whole skin becomes impregnated with 

 the same yellow hue ; the ears, tail, eyes, and mouth, 

 are v/here it is most conspicuous to the sight ; after a 

 while, the bowels become costive, and the teeth loose. 

 Great debility of the nervous system takes place, they 

 have an aversion to move, and lose their appetites, 

 and wander about by themselves. If not attended to, 

 the udder may burst and other serious injury ensue. 



Cure. — In the first attack of the yellows, let the 

 following drench be given ; and if the weather be 

 open, turn the animal into a field where there is but 

 bare pasture : 



RECIPE No. 1. — Common salt, 4 ounces; Barbadoes aloes, 

 half an ounce ; ginger, 1 drachm ; water, 1 quart ; anodyne carmi- 

 native tincture, 2 ounces. 



How to make the Anodyne Carrainative Tincture, mentioned in 

 the Recipe. — Take of the best opium, bruised cloves, and ginger, 1 

 ounce each, and a quart of the best brandy. Mix them together in 

 a well corked bottle, shako it frequently for about three weeks ; 

 ■when settled, strain it through blotting paper, and it will be ready 

 for Qs« a« wanted. Keep it corked . 



