DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



are common to all animals. 



This part of our work is 

 devoted to the explanation 

 and treatment of the various 

 diseases affecting the ox, to- 

 gether with an account of the 

 diseases incident to milch 

 cows and young calves. 



Cattle diseases are, in many 

 particulars, similar to those 

 of the horse. Thus inflam- 

 mation, irritation and fever, 

 Still, however, there are many 

 diseases affecting cattle, in which Ave fail to find a counter- 

 part in any disease attacking horses. Among such diseases 

 we may mention those of contagious typhus, or rinderjjest ; 

 epizootic aphtha, or the murrain; splenie apoplexy and 

 quarter evil, or the black leg. 



The manner or mode of treating disease in the ox differs 

 no more from that employed in the case of the horse, than 

 one disease differs from another. For it must be remem- 

 bered by every person Avho undertakes to give medicine to 

 an ox or a cow, that they have four stomachs — 1, the 

 rumen, or paunch; 2, the reticulum; 3, the mamjplus; 4, 

 the abomasum. For this reason, or, as it were, peculiarity, 

 cows or oxen should, under every condition, be ti'eated 



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