531 MANL^AL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



quantity of urine at a time, and frequently none at all. 

 The following must be administered until the complaint is 

 removed : — 



Camphor, powdered . 2 drachms, 

 Nitre . . . 1-| ounce, 



Spirit of nitrous aether ^ ounce, 

 Laudanum . . -J ounce, 



Oatmeal-gruel, warm . 1 pint. 



When strangury is accompanied by costiveness, which is 

 frequently the case, immediate recourse should be had to 

 laxatives. A pound of Epsom salts, dissolved in half-a- 

 gallon of warm gruel, may be given ; and the discharge 

 assisted by administering clysters at the same time, consist- 

 ing of four ounces of lintseed-oil, and a quart of thin warm 

 gruel, with half-an-ounce of salt of tartar to make them in- 

 corporate. If an evacuation does not speedily take place, 

 the clyster must be repeated in half-an-hour afterwards, 

 and continue every twenty minutes, until it has the desired 

 effect. 



It will be injudicious to feed a cow too much, previous to 

 calving, as in that event they may be attacked with what 

 is termed the railk-fever, or, in other words, inflammation in 

 the womb. If it is found that cows have too great a ten- 

 dency to fatten previous to calving, they must be removed 

 to a less nutritious pasture, or stinted in their diet, which 

 is much more safe than reducing them by the aid of medi- 

 cine. But if they cannot be easily reduced, and the time of 

 parturition be close at hand, then it will be necessary to 

 have recourse to bleeding. 



ABORTION. 



Cows are very liable to abortion, or, as it has been termed, 

 slipping their calf, in the earlier stages of gestation. A 



