HORNED CATTLE. 625 



feeds powdered, one ounce ; either in gruel, or 

 beer warm. Good fweet hay, fmall quantities 

 at a time. In two or three days, bark and 

 gentian, half an ounce each ; ground ginger a 

 tea-fpoon full, in warm ale, moderately fweet- 

 ened, twice a day, to be continued awhile ; or, 

 occafionally a decoction of horehound, camo« 

 mile, and carduus, fweetened : the very rough 

 aftringents, fuch as verjuice, oil of vitriol, 

 alum, &c. ufcd by cow-leaches in this cafe, are 

 highly improper, and fometimes have fatal 

 effefts. Clarke relates an inftance of a horfe 

 being killed by a draught of vinegar. 



Red Water, or Bloody Urine, or 

 Foul Water, in Cows. Opium, fixty grains; 

 with or without as much rufl: of iron; or 

 thirty grains vitriol of iron to be given twice a 

 day, in a ball mixed with flour and water, and 

 diflblved in w^arm ale : corn twice a day, and 

 cover at night, if cold weather. Zoonomia, 

 Vol. 11. p. 6g, 



Gorged or Hoven, i. e. fwelled with 

 over-feeding, either with green or dry food. 

 Bleed from three pints to four, and drive 

 about moderately. The cafe being (light, 

 either of the following drenches may fucceed, 

 without paunching. Glauber or Epfom falts, 

 two to fix ounces ; fyrup of buckthorn, (if at 

 hand) one ounce ; nitre, one ounce ; oil, half 

 a pint ; peppermint w^ater, or gin, a quarter 



VOL. II. s s pint; 



