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correct the foul acid matter in the stomach. Salt freely 

 as a preventive. Give pure water, if possible. Sulphur 

 is good. So is tar. Give from a gill to half a pint to 

 each grown animal, every two or three weeks. Kub tar 

 on the head, between the horns, and on the nose. A 

 writer in Ohio says that he used salt and air-slaked 

 lime with good success for twenty years. The alkali 

 prevents the enlargement of the gall. A writer in the 

 '^ American Farmer" gave his cattle a little slaked lime 

 with their salt, two or three times a week, and thus pro- 

 tected them, while his neighbors lost many, sometimes 

 nearly all, by this disease. In one case, a farmer lost all 

 his cattle by murrain, while the cattle of a neighbor, to 

 which he gave salt and lime every morning, all escaped, 

 though daily runnmg among those that died. 



Treatment. It is best to pay particular attention to 

 preventives, as this disease is difficult to cure, or seldom 

 cured in severe cases. As soon as an animal is infected, 

 remove it from the rest into a well-ventilated shed or 

 house. Bleeding copiously is recommended ; but do this 

 early. Wash the body all over with lukew" ji water 

 and vinegar, and rub the skin frequently, thiit the pores 

 may be opened. Make a rowel in the dewlap, and keep 

 it open until a cure is effected. If the dung be hard and 

 dry, which may be the case in the first symptoms, give 

 a cooling purge, such as salts. In case of very obsti- 

 nate constipation of the bowels, back-rake, and give 

 exciting injections before giving physic. 



Give a drink of bran and water, lukewarm, but give 

 no hay until the animal is sufficiently recovered to chew 

 the cud. When a purging comes on voluntarily, check 

 it by giving four ounces of powdered chalk, two ounces 

 of powdered anise-seed, one ounce of powdered ginger, 

 and one drachm of opium, cut fine, mixed in a quart ot 

 warm gruel. In all cases, give physic and laxative food 

 when there is costiveness ; and when there is diarrhoea, 

 check it gradually, avoiding extremes. 



Caution. All the litter about a sick animal should 

 be burned, and all the cattle that die of the complaint 

 should be buried five feet deep, to prevent the effluvia 

 rising from the carcass and spreading the infection. 



