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tine and belladonna assiduously applied. The joints should 

 then be wrapped up in flannel, after being dried. If the 

 joint gives extreme pain, it must be smartly blistered at the 

 outset with ointment of cantharides. When the heart is affected 

 seriously, the prognosis is very bad. When matter forms in the 

 joint, or near to it, it is best to have the animal slaughtered, as 

 treatment will be seldom beneficial, and the animal will lose 

 flesh rapidly. 



In those instances where the sides are very painful, in which 

 cases we speak of the felon as pleurodynia, and there is no 

 further serious mischief, the animal must be kept warm, and 

 fed upon easily digestible diet. The sides should be rubbed 

 over with turpentine liniment, and, if there be any fever, the 

 salicylate of sodium and bicarbonate of potassium drench may 

 be given twice daily for three or four days. 



It is always well to remember that rheumatic cases are apt 

 to prove lingering, and it is therefore necessary not to be 

 impatient, if recovery seems more tardy than might have been 

 hoped. A great number of cases of disease in oxen set down to 

 countless other maladies are in reality nothing more nor less than 

 rheumatism, either in the joints of the limbs, the joints of the 

 trunk, or in the coverings of the muscles. An animal recover- 

 ing from rheumatism requires tonics, if much debility is 

 exhibited. In such cases a drench may be given once or twice 

 daily. One ounce of gentian, one ounce of ginger, one ounce of 

 fenugreek, and one of aniseed, may be prescribed, and given 

 dissolved, or rather mixed, with a pint of ale. 



AN.EMIA: ITS CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, NATURE, 

 AND TREATMENT.— FOOD-SUPPLY OF THE COW. 



It was Goethe who wrote, " Every beginning is difficult ; but, 

 difficult as the initial stages of any subject prove to be^ they are 

 overcome with far less effort than the finishing touches." This 

 generalisation is very true, and it is especially applicable in the 

 case of the diseases and disorders of the ox. It is not the 

 general points regarding them which present much difficulty to 

 the careful observer ; but it is the clearing up of the many 

 uncertainties which chiefly engages his attention, and puts the 

 resources of his knowledge to so keen and sharp a test. 



The writer recollects, a very long time ago, when quite a small 



