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pulse falters, or intermits, or the animal begins to heave 

 violently, or threatens to fall. The beast should not be 

 permitted to drink cold water immediately after bleed- 

 ing, nor to graze in tlie field : the former has sometimes 

 induced troublesome catarrh, and the latter may cause 

 the orifice to open again. If this operation is performed 

 in tiie summer season, it will be most prudent to fetch 

 the cattle out of th.e pasture towards evening, in order 

 lliat they may be bled ; and, after that, to let them 

 stand in the fold-yard all night, and drive them back to 

 the field on the following morning. 



PHYSIC. 



The chief purgatives in use for neat cattle are Glau- 

 ber's salts, Epsom salts. Baibadoes aloes, Linseed oil, 

 and Sulphur. In obstinate constipation of the bowels, 

 ten or fifteen grains of the farina of the Croton nut, 

 freshly prepared, may be added with good efi^ect One 

 pound of Glauber's, or Epsom salts, will puige a full- 

 .sized bea^t. Where there is considerable fever, or the 

 attack of fever is apprehended, there is no purgative so 

 beneficial as the Epsom salts. In bad cases, twenty-four 

 ounces may be given at a dose, and eight ounces of sul- 

 phur every six hours afterwards, until the full purgative 

 effect is produced. Linseed oil is rapidly superseding 

 the more expensive and the more unceirain castor oil: 

 dose is from a pint to a pint and a half. As a mild 

 aperient, and in cases where there is no great dej^ree of 

 fever, and a violent purge is not required, there are few 

 better things than Sulpur. AVh^re nothing else is at 

 hand, and the case is urgent, Common Salt is no con- 

 temptible medicine: a pound of it dissolved in water 

 will, produce a very fair purgative effect, but it should 

 not be given if the animal labors under fever. The fol- 

 lowing are the cases in which purgative medicines are 

 found useful : 



1. A purging diink is very j)ro|)crly given to cows 

 soon after calving, in order to prevent the milk fever. 



2. Milch cows in particular, if feeding on herbage, oi 



