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stifficiently indicate this. Some degree of cough comes 

 on ; some discharge from the nose ; or the breath begins 

 to be exceedingly offensive. Considerable swelling ap- 

 pears under the chin ; a fcetid purging comes on of all 

 colors. 



Remedy. — Tonics and aromatics are usually mingled 

 with common salt ; but first of all the bowels are eva- 

 cuated by some of the usual purgatives, and the Epsom 

 salts are the best. The following prescription should 

 then be tried : 



RECIPE. 



Mixture for the i?o^.— Take common salt, eight 

 ounces; powdered gentian, two ounces; ginger, ooe 

 ounce ; tincture of Colombo, four ounces. Put the whole 

 into a quart bottle, and add water so as to fill the 

 bottle. 



A table-spoonful of this mixture should be given 

 morning and night for a week, and then the following 

 mixture may be given at night, while the former is con- 

 tinued in the morning, and by which the flukes will be 

 destroyed, as the worms in the bronchial tubes some- 

 times are in the hoose of young cattle. 



RECIPE. 



Second Mixture for the Rot. — Take of recipe (above), 

 a quart ; spirit of turpentine, three ounces : shake them 

 well togetlier when first mixed, and whenever the me- 

 dicine is given. Two table-spoonfuls are the usual 

 dose. 



The morning dose should be given on an empty 

 stomach, and the evening dose before the night's feedia 

 given, if the animal is housed. 



THE FOOT-ROT. 



The first symptoms of the disease is the lameness of 



