714 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. 



LUNGS, INFLAMMATION OF. 



(i.) Draught — 



Tincture of aconite (V. P.), forty minims. 

 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 

 Spirit of nitrous ether, half a fluid ounce. 

 Water, a sufiBcient quantity. 

 This draught may be administered every six hours. 



(ii.) Counter-irritants. See Counter-irritants. 

 In cases of inflammation of the lungs a great deal depends upon the general 

 management. All draughts should be scrupulously avoided, and still the shed 

 should be thoroughly well ventilated. This may, perhaps, best be effected by 

 means of Tobin's tubes. One very good item of treatment may be found in 

 the careful application of hot rugs to the chest. 



MALIGNANT CATARRH. 

 Draught — 



Salicylic acid, three drachms. 



Tincture of cinchona, two fluid ounces. 



Whisky, four fluid ounces. 

 This draught, which is a most valuable one, may be mixed with a pint of 

 warm gniel and administered at intervals of from four to six hours. However, 

 in spite of treatment, this disease generally proves fatal. The ulcerations may 

 be touched with a preparation made of one part of carbolic acid, in ten parts of 

 either water or oil, and the animal should be made to inhale steam. The diet 

 should be nutritious and of a laxative nature ; and if the animal should recover, 

 the administration of tonic medicines will prove necessary. 



MAMMITIS. See Garget. 



MANGE. 



Ointments — 



(1.) Sulphur, one ounce. "* 



Lard, one ounce. 

 This ointment, simple as it is, may be said to be well-nigh invaluable in the 

 treatment of mange in almost all kinds of animals. 

 (2.) Oil of stavesacre, one fluid drachm. 

 Lard, one ounce. 

 This also is a most useful application ; perhaps, however, not quite so 

 valuable as the preceding. 



(3.) Ointment of sulphur, prepared as above, half an ounce. 



Ointment of stavesacre, prepared as above, half a fluid ounce. 

 White precipitate of mercury, twenty grains. 

 This, of course, is the strongest preparation of the three. 



N.B. — In regard to the treatment and cure of mange, we may make one 

 remark, which applies widely to the management of all cases of disease, whether 

 in animals or in man, although it applies to mange more markedly than to any 

 other malady. It is that a great deal depends on the way in which medicinal 

 preparations are used, and also, of course, on the general management of the 

 affected animals. For example, it is very highly necessary, if we wish to really 

 eradicate mange, that the application should be efficiently used, and used, too, 

 for a sufficient length of time. As a matter of fact, a great amount of careless- 



