CATTLE DOCTOR. 



weak, rumination is imperfectly performed, and the food 



passes from him half digested. 



As the disease proceeds, (lie dew lap hangs down and 

 has a flabliy appearance ; the offal runs off with a putrid 

 and offensive .MDell, and, as it falls upon the ground, 

 rises up in bubbles, and a membranous or skinny-like 

 substance is often seen upon it. The hair all over the 

 body soon appears pen-feathered or staring. Feverish 

 symptoms also accompany the complaint: the eyes be- 

 come dull and inflamed, there is much working of the 

 flanks, and the pulse is thick. 



Causes. — Taking cold at the time of calving; long 

 journeys ; exposure to sudden vicissitudes of the wea- 

 ther ; and, after being over-heated in traveling, being 

 turned into damp pastures, (fcc. 



In all cases the animals should be taken from grass, 

 and put into a large cow-house, or an open yard, where 

 thev can be sheltered from the weather, and kept on dry 

 food, such as good hay, ground oats, barley, and beans. 

 An equal proportion of each of the three last articles and 

 of linseed cake will make an excellent food for cattle la- 

 boring under dysentery. A quantity proportiotiate to 

 the appetite of the patients should be given two or three 

 times a day. or if they are much reduced and their ap- 

 petite is quite gone, a thick gruel should be made of 

 these ingredients, and administered three or four times 

 a day. 



/?67??tc/y.— Bleeding, proportioned to the suddenness 

 and violence of the attack, and the apparent degree of 

 fever, should be fust resorted to. 



If the eyes iiic inflamed, with heaving of the flanks, 

 and painfid twilchings of the belly, accompanied by se- 

 v»Me sliaiiiing and apparent gripings in the expulsion 

 of the excrement, the abstraction of blood is indispen- 

 sable. 



The purgative drink (No. 2.) should precede the use 

 of every oilier medicine, in whatever state the bowels 

 may be. It will prepare for the safer use of astringents. 

 In almost cverv case there will be something in the 



