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fellon. When the cold is more violent, feverish symp- 

 toms appear ; the breathing becomes more rapid and 

 difficult ; the flanks work much, the animal hooses, the 

 pulse is quick, the nose and mouth dry, the breath hot ; 

 the beast becomes restless ; mooves i'rom one place to 

 another in evident distress ; and the bowels become 

 costive. Inflammation of the lungs or bowels may 

 now be said to be produced. 



Cure, — Where the feverish or inflammatory symp- 

 toms have not yet appeared, a worm cordial drink, as 

 the following, will, by acting as a stimulant to the stom- 

 ach, assist the defective digestive energy, and (in the 

 cow,) increase the secretion of milk; it also restores 

 the obstructed perspiration, and enables nature to re- 

 sume her former course : 



RECIPE No. 34.— CORDIAL DRINK.— Fresh powdered 

 sweet fennel seeds, and cummin seeds, two ounces each; powdered 

 long pepper, turmeric, ginger, and elecampane one ounce each ; 

 molasses or sugar, two ounces. Pour on a quart of boiling hot ale 

 or gruel, and cover down tight. Give it when nearly cool. Or, 



RECIPE No. 13 — Powdered grains of Paradise, do., aniseed, 

 do. carraway seeds, and do. Fenugreek, 2 ounces each. Mix in 

 two pints of warm water, and add two spunful of treacle, or coarse 

 sugar. 



Those drinks will effect a cure, occasionally repeat- 

 ed, if no feverish symptoms ensue ; but if they do, a 

 free bleeding must be applied to, and repeated, if ne- 

 cessary; and the treatment should be the same as for 

 inflammation generally. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



It is a serious disorder, and takes place in various 

 degrees, each varying in its symptoms, but all bearing 

 sufficient resemblance to each other to determine the 

 complaint. 



Symptoms. — Heaviness, dullness, and loss of appe- 

 tite , the lungs are affected ; the breathing disturbed ; 

 and sometimes accompanied by a hoose, or cough; the 

 milk of the cow is affected, both in quality and quan- 

 tity ; and the animal is in great and evident pain. 



Cure. — Bleeding is the first remedy in this as in all 

 other inflammations, which must be done copiously, es- 

 pecially when it has been accustomed to good pasture ; 

 and then i saline opening drench may be given : 



