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HORNED CATTLE. 



pint ; ground ginger, q. s. in three pints warm 



whey or gruel. The addition of two drachms- 



fuccotrine aloes in fine powder, will render this 



medicine more efFeftual. Or. Dr. Whytt's 



medicine, of Edinburgh, by which Jie faved 



eighteen hoven cows out of twenty. Gin, one 



pint, in the fame quantity of water. When the 



affair appears dangerous, and the beaft cannot 



{land, lofe no time, but perform the fimple and 



eafy operation of paunching ; viz. make an in- 



cifion with a (harp knife, on the near fide, 



about an inch and a quarter long, between the 



rib and hip-bone, three inches below the bones 



of the loin. In cafe of pregnancy great care 



mull be taken. The wound may afterwards be 



healed with tar and fpirits, or Friar's balfam. A 



farrier, in SufTex, lately took from the body of 



a cow near two buOnels of indigefled hay. 



Some infert a tube into the v/ound to condu6l 



forth the imprifoned air; and ProfefTor Munro 



of Edinburgh, invented a flexile one, to be 



paffed through the mouth into the flomach of 



either oxen or (heep, which may be had of 



Mac Dougale, Oxford-ftreet, London. This 



tube may be left in the flomach of the animal 



any length cf time, being no hindrance to 



breathing ; or any medicine may be inje61ed 



through it. It is held a fafer method than in- 



cifion by Dr. M. 



Epidemics in Cattle ; Pest, Murrain, 



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