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Don't think, because your neighbour had a horse or cow in just the 

 same state ~ apparently — last week, and some wonderful patent nostrum 

 cured it, that yours will be set all right with the same treatment. 

 Your neighbour's animal may have had one or tivo of the symptoms 

 similar to those exhibited in your case, but yours may have others, 

 accompanying these, which can only be detected by the professional 

 eye. Don't waste time, money, and, perhaps, the animal as well, by 

 delay in such a case, but send at once for your \eterinary attendant, 

 and, in the meantime, do as much to relieve the animal as possible, 

 such as putting it in an airy box, clothing well, bandaging the legs, &c. 

 This of itself will often, both in the case of horses and cattle, set 

 them right, and the temperature will come down 2 or 3 degrees by 

 simply putting them alone in a loose box. Animals, as a rule, when 

 ailing in the fields, get away by themselves to a quiet corner. Follow 

 their example, I say then ; but whatever you do, don't start and tamper 

 with quack medicines, of the composition of which you know nothing, 

 and which may be exactly the reverse of what is required. Try and 

 find out which way nature is working, and then do what you can to 

 assist her. If you fail in this, send for your professional veterinary 

 adviser. 



43. It is, however, a well-known fact that in many cases, nature 

 has within the body the power — Vis Medicatyix Natui'cB — to repair and 

 cure herself without the aid of medicine. And in respect of this, I 

 have, on many occasions, attributed beneficial changes to the simple 

 action of common salt, owing to the patients licking the lump rock 

 salt placed before them, and therefrom obtaining a desire to take 

 water and food when nothing else would induce them to do so. In all 

 ailments, therefore, affecting horses and cattle, it will be found of great 

 service to have a good sized piece of lump rock salt placed in the 

 manger or trough for the animal to lick at leisure, particularly in 

 febrile affections. 



