110 



•r otire oil, 6 or 8 ounces. Ten ounces common salt may b* «ib« 

 Btituted for the salts, when more handy. 



Where the medicine given does not operate freely^ 

 assist it by drenching the animal with whey. Take 

 two quarts of blood, or more, according to the state 

 of the animal's habit. 



When you succeed in removing the hardened ex» 

 crement Irom the third stomach, and in putting a stop 

 to the discharge of blood with the urine, aitention 

 should be paid to the animal's diet, as the digestive 

 system is in a very weakened state. Nothing is bet- 

 ter adapted for this purpose than a field where the 

 grass is short and sweet, and where it must exercise 

 itself to obtain a proper quantity of food. 



The disease being of an inflammatory nature, bleed- 

 ing is indispensable; take about two quaits of blood, 

 and if necessrry repeat it the next day. 



Mr. White pursued this practice successfully, and 

 never lost one through rod water afterwards. If it 

 be accompanied with looseness, or symptoms of pain, 

 as a straining or holding out of the tail, give in pre- 

 feience the recipe No. 5, and afterwards administer 

 the cordial drink, recipe No. 13. 



The following ball being of a more astringent na- 

 ture, may be administered vvith good effects, after the 

 costiveness has been subdued. 



RECIPE No. 24. — Venice turpentine, 4 ounces; nitre in pow- 

 der, bay-berries powdered, Armenian bole powdered, two ouncei 

 each ; alum, powdered, 4 ounces. 



Make it into one ball. Slice it into a quart of hot gruel, give it 

 milk warm. Let it be repeated every other night. 



DOWNFALL, UDDER ILL, SORE UDDERS, 

 INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER. 



From the intimate connection between the fourth 

 stomach and the udder, the reader will be at no loss 

 to understand that when that is out of order, the ud- 

 der, and consequently the quality and quantity of the 

 milk, must be materially affected. These or rather 

 this complaint, for they are all one, or different stages 

 of the same disease, of which the pre-disposing cause 

 is bad feeling, and the exciting or immediate cause, a 

 cold, or inflammation of the udder, is essential to be 

 taken in time, and of the utmost consequence to ow«- 



