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ministered. The purging drink will be a 

 good purgative medicine in such a case. 

 (See No. 2, Domestic Animals, Medi- 

 cines for.) 



After that the purging drink No. 1 

 should be given morning and night, the 

 drink No. 2 being repeated if the bowels 

 should be costive. 



It will be proper to house the beast, and 

 especially at night ; and a mash of scalded 

 bran with a few oats in it, if there is no 

 fever, should be allowed. It is necessary 

 carefully to watch the animals that are 

 laboring under this complaint ; and, if the 

 heaving should continue, or the muzzle 

 again become or continue dry, and the 

 breath hot, more blood should be taken 

 away and the purging drink repeated. 

 At the close of the epidemic catarrh the 

 animal will sometimes be left weak and 

 with little appetite. It should be well as- 

 certained whether the fever has quite left 

 the beast, because listlessness and disin- 

 clination to move, and loss of appetite, 

 and slight staggering, may result as much 

 from the continuance of fever as from the 

 debility which it leaves behind. If the 

 muzzle is cool and moist, and the mouth 

 not hot, and the pulse sunk to nearly its 

 natural standard, or rather below it, and 

 weak and low, the purging drink may be 

 ventured on ; but No. 1 must be returned 

 to if there is the slightest appearance or 

 increase of cold or fever. (See No. 3, 

 Domestic Animals, Medicines for.) 



There is another way in which the 

 worms may with greater certainty be got 

 rid of. There are some substances which 

 are immediately destructive to worms when 

 brought in contact with them. Some of 

 these medicaments may be taken into the 

 circulation of the animal with perfect 

 safety to him, and probably death to the 

 worms. Among those which most readily 

 enter into the circulation after being swal- 

 lowed is the oil or spirit of turpentine. 

 The breath is very soon afterward tainted 

 with its smell, which shows that a portion 

 of it has passed into the lungs. Therefore, 

 when other means have failed, and the 

 continuance of the violent cough renders 

 it extremely probable that worms are in 

 the air passages, the turpentine drink for 

 worms may be resorted to. (See No. 5, 

 Domestic Animals, Medicines for.) 



This may be repeated every morning 

 without the slightest danger; and even 



when we are a little afraid to give longer 

 by the mouth, it may be thrown up in the 

 form of an injection. A pint of lime water 

 every morning, and two tablespoonfuls of 

 salt every afternoon, have also been ad- 

 ministered with advantage when worms 

 are present in the windpipe. 



Should the case appear to be obstinate, 

 the exhibition of half doses of physic every 

 second or third day will often be useful, 

 with the stimulating drink, morning and 

 night, on each of the intermediate days. 

 (See No. 6, Domestic Animals, Medi- 

 cines for.) 



A seton in the dewlap should never be 

 omitted ; and if the disease seems to be 

 degenerating into inflammation of the 

 lungs, the treatment must be correspond- 

 ingly active. 



The termination of hoose that is most 

 to be feared is consumption. That will 

 be indicated when the discharge from the 

 nose becomes purulent or bloody, and the 

 breath stinking, and the cough continues 

 to be violent, while the beast feeds badly, 

 and the eyes begin to appear sunk in the 

 head, and he rapidly loses flesh. The best 

 remedy here, so far as both the owner and 

 the animal are concerned, is the pole-axe 

 of the butcher ; for in the early part of the 

 disease the meat is not at all injured, and 

 may be honestly sold. If, however, it is 

 wished that an attempt should be made to 

 save the animal, the cough and fever 

 drink may be given daily, more attention 

 should be paid to the warmth and com- 

 fort of the beast, and if the weather is 

 favorable it should, after a while, be turned 

 into a salt marsh, either entirely or during 

 the day. 



CATTLE, Influenaa in. — (See Cattle, 

 Cold and Cough.) 



CATTLE, Catarrh in. — (See Cattle, 

 Cold and Cough.) 



CATTLE, Inflammation of the Lungs. — 

 When common catarrh has been ne- 

 glected, it will sometimes run on to in- 

 flammation of the lungs, or the beast may 

 be attacked with this disease without any 

 of the previous symptoms of catarrh. This 

 is a very serious complaint, and requires 

 the most prompt and decisive treatment. 



The symptoms are dullness, shivering, 

 and cough that is particularly sore; the 

 ears, roots of the horns, and legs are some- 

 times cold, but not invariably so, as the 

 quantity of cellular membrane about the 



