20 CATTLE DOCTOR. 



from the first bleeding, the operation must be repealed 

 the same extent, unless the beast should become faint; 

 and the bowels must be kept in a loose or rather purg- 

 ing stale by No. 2. As soon as the bowels arc opened, 

 the fever drink (No. 1.) should be given morning, noon, 

 and night, until the patient is well. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS, WITH C0STIVENES8. 



Inflammation of the bowels is by no means an un- 

 common disease among neat cattle, and frequently 

 proves fatal to them from injudicious treatment. It is a 

 complaint easily recognisable on account of the peculiar 

 symptoms by which it is attended. 



The animal is continually lying down and gettmg 

 up again immediately, and, when up, he strikes at his 

 belly with the hind feet. The bowels are obstinately 

 constipated : the offal, if any is voided, is in small quan- 

 tities — liard, covered with mucus, and that sometimes 

 streaked with blood— and the urine is generally voided 

 with difficulty. The pulse is quicker than natural, and 

 there is much heaving at the flanks. 



It is distinguished from colic by the great degree of 

 fever that evidently attends it, the muzzle being dry 

 and the mouth hot. The animal becomes speedily 

 weak, he falls or throws himself down suddenly, and 

 when he rises he does it with difficulty, and he staggers 

 as he walks. 



The disease mostly arises from sudden exposure to 

 cold ; and especially when cattle go into rivers or ponds 

 after being heated and fatigued. 



The flrst thing to be done, and that which admits of 

 no delay, is to bleed ; from six to eight quarts of blood 

 at least should be taken away. Immediately after- 

 wards the purging drink should be administered, and its 

 eflfect promoted by lialf-doses of No. 2, given every six 

 hours. If one day is t;uflered to pass without proper 

 means being taken, the beast is irrecoverably lost. 



If purging should not bo accomplished after the third 

 dose of the medicine, a pound of comujon salt may be 



