90 CATTLE DOCTOR. 



an ounce; laudanum, half an ounce; chloride of lime, 

 in powder, two ounces ; prepared chalk, an ounce. Rub 

 them well together, and give them with a pint of warm 

 gruel. 



This may be repeated every six hours, until the purg- 

 ing is considerably abated ; but should not be continued 

 until it has quite stopped. 



The purging being abated, we must look about for 

 something to recall the appetite and recruit the strength^ 

 and I do not know anything better than the foilow- 

 iog: 



RECIPE. 



Tonic Drink for Murrain. — Take Columbia root, two 

 drachms; canella bark, two drachms; ginger, one 

 drachm ; sweet spirit of nitre, half an ounce. Rub them 

 together and give in a pint of thick gruel. 



INFLAMMATION CF THE BLADDER. 



This disease does not often occur in cattle, except 

 from eating acrid and poisonous herbs, or when cows 

 are near their time of calving. 



The course to be pursued where the neck of the blad- 

 der is inflamed is sufficiently plain —the bladder must 

 be emptied, or more fluid will pour into it until it actu- 

 ally bursts. For some time before the fatal termination 

 of the complaint in the rupture of the bladder, not only 

 the constant straining, but the heaving of the flanks, 

 the quickness of the pulse, the loss of appetite, the ces- 

 sation of rumination, and the shivering fits, will sufl5- 

 ciently indicate the extent of the danger. The better 

 way of emptying the bladder is, if possible, to relax the 

 spasms of its neck. A very large bleeding will some- 

 times accomplish this; but it must be a large one, and 

 continued until the animal is exhausted almost to 

 faintinn. 



To bleeding, physic should succeed, in oraer to lower 



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