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CATTLE DOCTOR. 



ounces ; ginger, half an ounce. Mix with a quart of 

 warm gruel. This drink should be repeated every third 

 day if the bowels appear to require it. 



The bowels having been gently opened, a drink which 

 may cause some determination to the skin, and in- 

 crease the insensible perspiration, should be admin- 

 istered. 



RECIPE. 



Rheuinatic Drink. — Take nitre, two drachms ; tar- 

 tarized antimony, one drachm ; spirit of nitrous ether, 

 one ounce ; aniseed powder, one ounce. Mix with a 

 pint of very thick gruel, and repeat the dose morning 

 and night, except when it is necessary to give the Sul- 

 phur Purging Drink. 



If any of the joints should continue swelled and pain- 

 ful, they should be rubbed twice a day, and for a quar- 

 ter of an hour each time, with a gently stimulating em- 

 brocation. 



RECIPE. 



Rheumatic Embr0cati0n.~T3.ke neat's foot oil, four 

 ounces; and camphorated oil, spirit of turpentine, and 

 laudanum, each one ounce ; oil of origanum, one drachm. 

 Mix. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 



^ When the milch cow is attacked, there is a diminu- 

 tion of the milk, and it has a ropy appearance and salt- 

 ish taste after being separated from the cream. The 

 animal has a heavy appearance, the eyes being dull, 

 the countenance depressed, with a stifTencd, staggering 

 gait ; the appetite is impaired, and the membrane of the 

 nostrils and the skig is of a yellow color. Sometimes 

 the respiration is muoh disturbed ; at others, it appears 

 tranquil; but the pulse, though unusually quickened, 

 IB. rarely hard or full. The bowels are generally consti- 



