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paunch. These, together with a host of nostrums too 

 numerous to mention, are tried without effect ; all is commo- 

 tion within ; fermentation commences ; gas is evolved ; the 

 animal gives signs of woe. As a last resort, paunching, 

 bleeding, &c, follow, and the animal dies under the treat- 

 ment. A. case similar to this came under the author's notice 

 a short time ago. A cow had been indisposed for several 

 days. A man, professing to understand the treatment of dis- 

 ease in domestic animals, was sent for j after giving the 

 usual remedies, without success, he administered a mixture 

 of hog's lard and castor oil. He stated that the object was 

 to wake up the cow's ideas ! but, unfortunately, he awoke the 

 wrong ideas, for the cow died a few hours afterwards. 



For the information of our readers, we will give two speci- 

 mens of the recipes used and recommended by the worldly- 

 wise for horses. 



" To cure a Stifled Horse. — Take one gallon of urine, a 

 small handful of junk tobacco, boil down to one quart, then 

 add two ounces of oil of spike, one ounce of oil of amber, 

 two of honey. Rub the stifle hard with the mixture, and 

 dry it thoroughly in with a red-hot fire shovel" (I) (See 

 Green Mountain Freeman, of Nov. 29, 1849. 



Our own views of this subject are, that it is the relics of a 

 cruel and barbarous system. The only party that would be 

 likely to derive benefit from the operation, would be the man 

 from whom the shovel was purchased. 



Another , from the same Paper. — "For lameness of the 

 shoulder, apply alum salt to the part affected, and rub up and 

 down the shoulder with a brick." (!) 



The fourth division of the stomach of the ox is called 

 abomasum. It somewhat resembles the duodenum of the 

 horse, and is the true digestive stomach ; it is studded with 

 numerous nerves, blood-vessels, and glands. It is a laboratory 

 admirably fitted up by the Divine Artist, and is capable of 

 carrying on the chemico-vital process as long as the animal 

 lives, provided the healthy functions are not impaired. The 

 glands alluded to secrete from the blood a powerful solvent 



