EINGWORM. SOS 



Treatment. Give a strong close of epsom and common 

 table salt, one pound each, and half an ounce of ginger, dis- 

 solved in four bottles of water, and sweetened with molasses. 

 Give mashes pretty well wet, and in a day or two follow 

 by giving powdered ginger root, half an ounce ; powdered 

 gentian root, half an ounce ; powdered fenugreek, half an 

 ounce; mix, and make one dose; give one dose twice in 

 the day, till sufficient improvement takes place to Avarrant 

 no further medicine being given. To hasten recovery, 

 give good and generous feeding, which ^\i\\ also assist in 

 making blood for that which has been lost. 



Reticulem. — The second stomach so called from ret, 

 or net like, and is sometimes called the honeycomb. 



Retroflexion of the Womb. — Retroflexion is said to 

 be present when the canal is bent on itself. 



Retroversion of the Womb. — This term is applied 

 Avhen the canal is straight. 



Rheumatism. — (See Hheumatism in the first part of 

 this book.) 



Rinderpest. — This is the Dutch name for Cattle 

 Plague. So much do I abhor the employment of such 

 ignorant and unmeaning names, that I cannot but enter- 

 tain a poor opinion of the scientific attainments of those 

 who constantly use them. The disease will be found treated 

 of under the article Typhus Contagiosus Boum, (contagious 

 typhus of cattle.) 



Ringworm. — This is a parasitic disease, and consists 

 in the i^^rowth of cellular tumors on the skin. Younp- 

 animals of one and two years are most subject to the attack 

 of the parasites. 



Symptoms. Broad and flattened elevations on the skin. 



