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tween the horns. The occasional use of garget root, 

 poke weed, (Phytolacca decandra.) Soot, salt, and pepper, 

 given occasionally. 



Treatment. Some recommend bleeding, but this 

 sometimes proves fatal. Perhaps it has been useful in 

 some cases, of animals in high condition, and in a fever, 

 which has induced this recommendation. Animals in 

 low condition are most subject to this disease, and they 

 shoulii have nourishing food to keep up their strength, 

 unless a fever prevails. Keep them in a warm shelter, 

 clothe warmly, and give warming, soothing teas, and 

 warm gruel. If the tail is affected, cut it off. If there 

 be a pressure of matter in the horns, boring them will 

 give temporary relief. Give gentle physic. Rub the 

 animal frequently, particularly on the back. An appli- 

 cation between the horns, as hot as can be borne, of 

 spirits of turpentine and good vinegar, one gill each, 

 and salt and black or red pepper, half a gill each, sim- 

 mered together, and retained by a cloth wound round 

 the horns, will be highly useful, and has, in some cases, 

 cured alone. This general course of treatment, or parts 

 of it, will be useful in aid of other remedies. 



Remedy. Joseph Fichner, veterinary surgeon, who 

 had long practised in France and Philadelphia, says, 

 " The animal is in a high fever, as perceived by the 

 throbbing of the breast. Bleed one or two quarts, and 

 give two table spoonfuls, three times a day, of the fol- 

 lowing mixture, dissolved in a pint of warm water, until 

 the animal recovers: — Glauber's salts, six ounces; 

 cream of tartar, two ounces; purified saltpetre, two 

 ounces ; powdered root of althese, one and a half ounces. 

 If the animal be costive, give a clyster of one handful of 

 camomile flowers, and two handfuls of flax-seed, boiled 

 in two quarts of water, and strained; to which add 

 half a pound of linseed oil, and half a gill of salt. 

 Or use a quart of wheat bran, instead of the flowers and 

 flax-seed." 



If a discharge be effected at the nose in season, there 

 will be no need of boring the horns. Mr. Abel Gleason, 

 of Wayland, Mass., has pursued the following method, 

 with excellent success : " Put half of a table spoonful of 



