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CATTLE— DISEASES AND REMEDIES. 



The bleeding will usually relax the mus- 

 cles of the jaw to a certain degree, and 

 for a little while ; and advantage must be 

 taken of this to give the Strong Physic 

 Drink. (See No. 47, Domestic Animals, 

 Medicines for.) 



Generally the jaw will be now suffi- 

 ciently relaxed to permit the introduction 

 of the thin neck of a claret bottle into 

 the mouth. 



The bowels having been opened, those 

 medicines must be resorted to which have 

 the readiest and most powerful effect in 

 quieting the nervous system. These are, 

 as it regards cattle, the Anodyne Drink 

 for Locked Jaw. t^See No. 48, Domes- 

 tic Animals, Medicines for.) 



This medicine should be administered 

 three or four times every day, care being 

 taken that the bowels are kept open, 

 either by means of aloes or Epsom salts. 



The bleeding should be repeated on 

 the second day, if the animal is not evi- 

 dently relieved; and as much blood 

 should be again taken as the patient can 

 bear to lose. 



The stable or cow house should be 

 warm, and the animal covered with two 

 or three thick rugs. If considerable per- 

 spiration can be excited, the beast is al- 

 most sure to experience some relief. 



While all this is done to lower the ac- 

 tion of the nervous system, the strength 

 of the beast must be supported. He will 

 not, or rather he cannot eat ; but he often 

 looks very wistfully at his food. Let a 

 good mash, a little at a time, and moister 

 than usual, be placed before him, a por- 

 tion of which he will try hard to suck up. 

 If he manages this tolerably well he needs 

 not to be forced with gruel or any other 

 nutriment ; but if his jaws are too firmly 

 fixed for this, the small end of the pipe 

 of Read's pump should be introduced 

 into the mouth, and as much thick gruel 

 pumped down as the attendant pleases. 

 When the poor animal has been hungry 

 two or three days through utter impossi- 

 bility of eating, he will gladly enough 

 submit to this operation, and almost offer 

 himself for it. 



It will be almost labor in vain to en- 

 deavor to stimulate the skin, or to raise a 

 blister. Two, three or four setons in the 

 dewlap have been useful; and benefit has 

 been derived from shaving the back along 

 the whole course of the skin, and cauter- 



izing it severely with a common firing-iron. 

 If it should be found impracticable to 

 administer either food or medicine by the 

 mouth, they must be given in the form of 

 clysters. Double the usual quantity of 

 the medicine must be given, on account 

 of the probable loss of a portion of it, 

 and the small quantity that the absorb- 

 ents of the intestines may take up ; but 

 too much gruel must not be injected, 

 otherwise it will probably be returned. A 

 quart will generally be as much as will be 

 retained, and the clyster may be repeated 

 five or six times in the course of the day. 



Should the progress of the disease 

 have been rapid, and the symptoms vio- 

 lent ; or should it be found to be impossi- 

 ble to give medicine by the mouth, or 

 cause them to act by injection, the most 

 prudent thing will be to have recourse to 

 the butcher. The meat will not be in the 

 slightest degree injured, for it is a disease 

 that is rarely accompanied by any great 

 degree of fever. 



CATTLE TEACHEA, Inflammation of 

 the. — See Cattle, Throat, Inflamma- 

 TrON of the. 



CATTLE, Bronchitis in. — Bronchitis 

 consists in a thickening of the fibrous 

 and mucous surfaces of the trachea, and 

 generally results from maltreated hoose or 

 catarrh. 



Symptoms. — A dry, husky, wheezing 

 cough, laborious breathing, hot breath 

 and dry tongue. 



Treatment. — Warm poultices of slip- 

 pery elm or flaxseed, on the surface of 

 which sprinkle powdered lobelia. Apply 

 them to the throat moderately warm ; if 

 they are too hot they will prove injurious. 

 In the first place, administer the follow- 

 ing drink : 



Powdered Liquorice 1 ounce 



Powdered Elecampane % " 



Slippery Elm 1 " 



Boiling water sufficient to make it of the con- 

 sistence of thin gruel. 



If there is any difficulty in breathing, 

 add half a teaspoonful of lobelia to the 

 above, and repeat the dose night and 

 morning. Linseed or marshmallow tea is 

 a valuable auxiliary in the treatment of 

 this disease. The animal should be com- 

 fortably housed, and the legs kept warm 

 by friction with coarse straw. 



CATTLE, " Blasting." — See Cattlk 

 Hoove. 



