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with merlicine in a fluid form only, so that it may pass 

 from one stomach to another without injury, and in tlie 

 shortest possible time. By giving medicine in the form of 

 a solid — as is sometimes given to the horse — in place of its 

 finding the way into any of the stomachs, it is more hkely 

 to break tlirough tlie floor of the cesophagean caned, (a 

 platform at the bottom of the gullet) thus not only losing 

 the medicine, but at the same time destroying the animal. 



In cases of abscess, tumors, sores or ulcers, etc., in cattle, 

 and where the description and treatment is not full enough, 

 or not given at all, the reader is. requested to turn to the 

 Diseases of the Horse, in the preceding part of this work, 

 where he will find ample information upon these subjects. 



(1.) Abortion. — An affection peculiar to cows, and 

 chiefly attacking those that are kept in the neighborhood 

 of cities and large towns, and in the vicinity of cheese 

 factories. It is rarely seen to any extent in the herds of 

 the breeder and as^riculturist. It consists in the cow 

 parting with her calf at any time between the first month 

 of conception and the last month of gestation. 



Premonitory Symptoms. By these the event is at times 

 clearly foreshadowed. They are extremely deceptive and 

 uncertain, however, and differ materially with the cause of 

 the trouble. In those cases which resemble an epizootic 

 (epidemic) disease in their course, a short, inaudible, involun- 

 tary cough is observed, while, by auscultation of the neck, 

 a slightly roughened sound will be heard in the bronchia, 

 accompanied by weakness of the body. Indeed, the 

 symptoms of this occurrence, when not of sporadic origin, 

 are weakness and debility. This debility and weakness, 

 to most persons, will prove deceptive, because the blood is, 

 or has gone uudei* a morphological change ; and then, and 



