DISEASES OP ANIMALS. 



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fine. The leg had been enlarging some time, and now 

 was double the size of the other at the place broken, but 

 as yet had no strength, and would yield to pressure and 

 bend about, as he happened to hit or bore any weight 

 upon it, and durmg this time, several bones had worked 

 out of the wound, which still kept open, to which no 

 application was applied, except his own tongue, which 

 was verv frequent. I saw him from day to day, and 

 watched" the progress until about the middle of July, 

 when I found he could bear some weight on it, and was 

 getting into shape ; and about one month more it became 

 strong ; the wound had healed, and he walked as well 

 as ever. The joints above and below were perfect, the 

 leg straight, the length exact with the other, and as good, 

 but for the odds in size. He was in fine condition, com- 

 petent for all purposes by September, and fought as 

 good a battle as others. When coming four years old, 

 I fattened, and butchered him ; and sawed up the leg, 

 and found an entire new bone had formed, of about 

 three and a half inches in diameter, and gi-aduated 

 above and below so as to fit the former, and no appear- 

 ance of the old one for six or more inches, which had 

 doubtless been discharged as I stated above. 



Also, I have now a fine three year old steer, which 

 had his thigh broken by the kick of a horse, at about 

 seven months old. Him I left to manage as he might. 

 He was in a distant pasture with a large lot of other 

 young cattle ; took his own position wide from the 

 rest, and in about two months he got well ; and now no 

 one, without a close examination, would suspect that he 

 had ever met with the accident. 



INVERSION OF THE RECTUM. 



Sometimes, from straining in dysentery, a portion of the 

 rectum comes out of the fundament, and the animal can- 

 not draw it back. Give a pint of castor-oil, with two 

 drachms of opium, to a full-growTi animal, as an ox or 

 horse. The part protruded should be cleaned ^\ath soap 

 suds ; then fomented an hour with a decoction of poppy 

 heads, or other mollifying herb, and then gently return 

 It. Cold wate" should then be applied around the anus 



