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and pliysicked (No 2). If she is not quieted, she should 

 be bled and physicked ag^ain in the course of three or 

 four days. She should be immediately removed from 

 the other cows ; for should she sUnk her calf among 

 them, it is not improbable that some, or even all, of the 

 others will do the same. 



AVhen it appears that labor is close at hand, she 

 should be driven gently to the cow-house, and for a 

 while left quite alone. • 



THE MILK FEVER, OR THE DROP. 



Whenever it takes place, at home or in the field, it is 

 distressing to the animal, as well as troublesome to the 

 owner ; for the beast is seldom able to rise during seve- 

 ral days. 



It most commonly appears about the second or third 

 day after calving ; but the cow is occasionally down 

 within a few hours after parturition. It is first recog- 

 nized by the animal refusing her food, looking dull and 

 heavy ; then follows protrusion of the eye, heaving of 

 the Hanks, restlessness, and every symptom of fever. In 

 a few hours, or on the next day at the latest, the cow 

 begins to stagger ; is weak in the loins ; palsy steals 

 over the whole frame ; and she falls, unable to rise again. 

 From this seeming palsy of the hinder limbs, and some- 

 times of the whole frame, the disease is very appropri- 

 ately called dropping after calving. 



The principal expectation of relief, however, must be 

 placed on the use of powerful purgatives, 



RECIPE. 



Take Epsom or Glauber's salts, twelve ounces ; flour 

 of sulphur, four ounces ; powdered ginger, four drachms ; 

 spirit of nitrous ether, one ounce. To be dissolved in 

 warm water. 



One-half of this draught may be repeated twice a day 

 until the bowels ate properly opened. In the severer 



