926 THE, PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



in valuable stallions or brood mares. Both cattle and horses 

 have been so treated, and have afterward walked about on 

 wooden legs. 



Rheumatism is a disease of the blood, and usually affects 

 the joints. 



SYMPTOMS. The affected joint will be hot, painful, tender, 

 stiff, and sometimes swollen; the animal suffers much, and does 

 not want to move; the inflammation often moves from one joint 

 to another ; the skin is dry, caused by the fever which is always 

 present in this disease ; the fever also often causing the animal, 

 if a milch cow, to quit chewing the cud ; the pulse will be quick- 

 ened, and the bowels costive. Milch cows are most liable to 

 this disease, and they are most liable in the spring and fall. 



TREATMENT. For a cow: 



Take Rochelle Salts, ...... 12 ounces. 



Ginger, ........ 3 drams. 



Water, 1 quart. 



Mix, and give at one dose, and continue giving three or four 

 ounces of Rochelle salts, every morning before feeding, until 

 the bowels begin to act. If it is a horse, 



Take Aloes, powdered, ...... 6 drams. 



Ginger, ........ 2 drams. 



Mix in hot water, and give when cool. Place the animal in 

 a dry, warm place, and bathe the parts with 



Tincture of Opium, ....... 2 ounces. 



Chloroform, . . ...... 2 ounces. 



Water, . . . . . . . . .12 ounces. 



Bathe two or three times a day, and, after each bathing, 

 bandage the leg loosely with flannel, and give salicylate of soda, 

 two drams every two or three hours, as long as needed; when 

 the more acute inflammation has passed bathe the joint with 



Turpentine, 4 ounces, 



Flaxseed Oil, 4 ounces, 



two or three times a day. 



Bathing. For this, water is most frequently used; but 

 vinegar and salt, and many other things are used. It is impos- 



