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drachm ; powdered digitalis, half a drachm ; and nitre, 

 three drachms. Mix, and give in a quart of tolerably 

 thick gruel. 



Cough occasionally assumes an epidemic character — 

 from sudden changes of the weather, chiefly and parti- 

 cularly in the spring and the fall of the year. 



Sijnipto77is of Epidemic Cold or Catarrh^ or Injlu- 

 enza. — The beast is dull and heavy, with weeping at 

 the eyes, and dry muzzle ; the hair looks pen-feathered, 

 or staring ; the appetite fails ; the secretion of milk is 

 diminished ; there is considerable heaving of the flanks ; 

 the pulse is from 50 to 70, and the bowels are generally 

 costive or sapped. 



It \vill be necessary to commence the treatment of 

 this disease with bleeding. From four to six quarts of 

 blood should be taken, and then a dose of physic ad- 

 ministered. The following will be a good purgative 

 medicine in such a case : 



RECIPE. 



Purging Drink. — Take epsom salts, one pound ; pow- 

 dered caraway-seeds, half an ounce. Dissolve in a 

 quart of warm gruel, and give. 



After that the drink No. 1 should be given morning 

 and night, the drink No. 2 being repeated if the bowels 

 should be costive. 



It will be proper to house the beast, and especially at 

 night ; and a mash of scalded bran with a few oats in 

 it, if there is no fever, should be allowed. It is neces- 

 sary carefully to watch the animals that are laboring 

 under this complaint ; and, if the heaving should con- 

 tinue, or the muzzle again become or continue dry, and 

 the breath hot, more blood should be taken away, and 

 the purging drink repeated. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



When common catarrh has been np>glected, it will 



