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DYSSENTERY, SLIMY FLUX, OR SCOUR- 

 ING ROT. 



Cattle kept in low, damp, and swampy situations, 

 are at all limes subject to the attacks of this danger- 

 ous disease; but it is most prevalent in autumn. Di- 

 arrhoea, as stated before, is apt to run into dyssente- 

 ry<, if not properly treated. 



Symptoms^ — Dung thin, slimy, and altered in color; 

 flatulency, and severe gtipings follow; the cow lies 

 dovn and gets up often, in evident distress ; and as 

 the disease increases, the beast becomes reduced to a 

 weak and debilitated state; its appetite is lost, the dew- 

 lap hangs down and has a flabby appearance; the dung 

 runs oti'with a putrid and offensive smell, and as it 

 falls rises up in bubbles. 



Cure. — Timely bleeding, purging drenches, and 

 clysters. The animal must be put under shelter,and 

 fed on good hay, ground oats, or crushed beans, giv- 

 en little at a time and often. If little appetite exist, 

 ^ive stiff gruel in a horn once or twice a day. 



As .soon as the disease is observed, give the follow- 

 ing opening drench: 



RECIPE No. 7. — Epsom salts, 1 pound; ginger in powders, 

 half an ounce ; anisseed, in powders, half an ounce ; solid opium, 

 cut small, 1 di-achm. I'our three pints boiling water on these in- 

 gredients, and give it whun milk warm. 



■If this does not speedily allay the symptoms, give 

 the drench No. 4, on page 99 ; and if the eyes be in- 

 flammed, the tvvitchings of the belly painful, and the 

 expulsion of the excrements accompanied with se- 

 vere gri pings, take two or three quarts of blood, and 

 give a pint of salad oil. 



In the worst stage of the disease, the surface of the 

 body sliould be kept warm with a woollen cloth. 



When the physic has operated, the following as- 

 tringent may be given every other day, fcr 4 days: 



llEClPE No. 8. — Prepared chalk, 4 ounces; bole armeuic, in 

 powder, 2 ounces; anisseed, ajid ginger, powdered, 1 ounce each; 

 opium, cut small, 1 drachm. Mix in warm gruel or ale for 1 dose. 



STAGGERS, VERTIGO, LETHARGY, SWIM- 

 MING OF THE HEAD, OR PARALYSES 

 OF THE STOMACH. 



This disorder has many names, but the symptoms 

 are unequivocal, and too evident to be mistaken. It 



