SECTION I L 



DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The chief attention of the veterinary art has been devoted 

 to diseases of the horse. This has proceeded in a great 

 measure from selfishness on the part of those practising it, 

 being better paid for the treatment of horses than cattle. 

 This department, has been hitherto almost entirely practised 

 by farmers, and uneducated country blacksmiths. However, 

 Mr. Dick, of Edinburgh, Professor of Veterinary Surgery to 

 the Highland Society, has done much towards increasing 

 our knowledge in this most important branch : indeed, 

 none is more so, when we consider so much of the comfort, 

 and health of the human race depends upon the quality of 

 that food so much used in almost every country. 



The following judicious remarks are made by Mr. Law- 

 rence, in his excellent work : — "It should be considered that 

 animals, living in a state of nature, regulated by the reason 

 and experience of man, would be almost wholly exempt from 

 disease ; that their appetites, like our own, may be held under 

 a constant control ; that their diseases result purely from 

 negligence or erroneous treatment of their owners. They 

 are either too much exposed to the rigour and changes of 



