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being given to an animal, such as the first feed of new grass, new hay, 

 or oats, Indian corn, &c. Treatment : For the horse, from one to 

 two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, or the same quantity of hypo- 

 sulphite of soda, dissolved in one pint of cold water, to which is added 

 half a pint of whisky, if given when first observed, will generally be 

 found to have the desired eff'ect. 



448. In the cow this complaint is most frequently met witli during 

 the spring months, when stock are changing their quarters. The 

 head, eyes, ears, neck, and the base of the tail are swollen up, while 

 the skin all over the body feels much thicker and harder than usual. 

 The swellings, at times, are so extensive in the region of the neck and 

 head, that the animal foarhs at the mouth, and shows all the symptoms 

 of choking. Formerly, cattle dealers and drovers, on observing a case 

 of this nature used to cut the partition dividing the nostrils, and let it 

 bleed, while farmers used to get very excited, and were in a great 

 hurry to have the anmial bled, thinking that they could not take too 

 much blood away. By this heroic and foolish treatment, I have seen 

 many subjects bled to death. All the Treatment that is necessary is 

 to give the cow a wineglassful of turpentine, in a pint of hnseed oil, or 

 milk ; or two ounces either of bicarbonate of soda or of hyposulphite 

 of soda may be given in one pint of cold water, to which half a pint of 

 whisky has been added. After this the animal should be left alone, 

 and a little patience exerted on the owner's part. 



449. Lymphangitis, Weed, Shot of Grease, or Monday 

 Morning Complaint, consists of inflammation of the absorbent 

 vessels, and most frequently affects the the hind legs of horses ; 

 occasionally, however, it is met with m the fore legs. It generally 

 appears on Monday mornings, after Sunday's rest — and, perhaps, 

 over-feed — and affects heavy horses, more particularly the sluggish 

 gummy-legged ones. From the suddenness of the attack, and the 

 extreme pain evinced on touching the affected limb, it, to my mind, 

 great!}' resembles gout in the human subject. Nineteen people out of 

 twenty are in the habit of calling this a "■shot of grease,'' whereas, in 

 reality, there is no grease about it, grease being purely a skin disease 



