THE DISEASES OF CATTLE. 189 



DISEASES OF THE UDDER AND TEATS. 



MAMMITIS 



Mammitis signifies inflammation of the udder ; it usually 

 consists of tumefaction, attended with heat and pain, and gen- 

 erally sets in shortly after calving. The treatment of this 

 affection should be antiphlogistic : let the animal have a full 

 dose of glauber salts, and apply a refrigerating lotion to the 

 udder (cold water will answer), in view of reducing the tem- 

 perature of the same. In this state of the udder scarcely any 

 milk flows, and what comes is often bloody ; soon an entire 

 obstruction takes place, or nothing but a watery secretion can 

 be got away. Next, the udder hardens in places, abscesses 

 form, and then the secretory function of one of more quarters 

 is destroyed; the animal now has the "garget," and ten 

 chances to one if the part or parts are ever restored. The 

 only way to prevent garget, is to let the calf suck immediately 

 nfter it is born, or else introduce a tube into one or more of the 

 teats, and thus evacuate the milk ere it coagulates. 



The following article was lately furnished by the author for 

 the Rural New Yorker, and is here introduced in view of 

 "lighting up" the subject. 



INFLAMED UDDER. 



" Mr. Editor, — I notice that one of yoi^R* subscribers is 

 desirous of obtaining some information in regard to the treat- 

 ment of Knots in Cows Teats (a diseased condition, known to 

 medical men as induration), and in view of gratifying his 

 wishes, and perhaps, at the same time, contributing an item 

 which may result in good to the inferior animal, I send you the 

 following : — 



" The disease, at its commencement, invariably consists of an 

 inflamed condition of the mamma or " bag," characterized by 

 pain, heat, swelling, and more or less febrile symptoms. It is 

 precisely the same disease which many nursing women are 



