18 CATTLE DOCTOR. 



While the tonic drink is given in the morning, the 

 following may be given at night : 



RECIPE. 



Drink for the Yellows. — Take of calomel and opium, 

 a scruple each. Mix and suspend in a little thick 

 gruel. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 



In the early period of it the beast is dull and stupid. 

 He stands with his head protruded, or pressed against 

 something for support. He refuses to eat, ceases to ru- 

 minate, and is, in a manner, unconscious of surrounding 

 objecis. Now and then he will stand motionless for a 

 long time, and then suddenly drop ; he will start up im- 

 mediately, gaze around him with an expression of wild- 

 ness and fear, and then sink again into his former 

 lethargy. All at once, however, his eyes will become 

 red, and seemingly starting from their sockets ; the 

 countenance will be both anxious and wild ; the anim.al 

 will stagger about, falling and rising, and running un- 

 consciously against everything in his way : at othei 

 times he will be conscious enough of things around him, 

 and possessed with an irrepressible desire to do mischief. 

 He will stamp with his feet, tear up the ground with 

 his horns, run at every one wnthin his reach, and with 

 tenfold fury at any red object ; bellowing all the while 

 most tremendously, and this he will continue until 

 nature is quite exhausted : a sudden and violent tiemb- 

 ling will tlien come over him, he will grind his teeth, 

 and the saliva will pour from his mouth ; he will fall, 

 every limb will be convulsed, and he will presently die. 



Causes. — It proceeds most commonly from a redun- 

 dancy of blood m the system, called by farmers an over- 

 flowing of the blood ; and this is induced by cattle thriv- 

 ing too fast when turned on rich pasture-grounds, or 

 their being fed too (piickly in order to get them into con- 

 dition for show or sale. It is sometimes occasioned by 

 the intense heat of the sun, when cattle have been 



