ox. 



starvation and excess of food in the 

 motlier will produce it ; more partic- 

 ularly will ihis be the case when a 

 foster-inoiher is employed. If she 

 lias calved but a very few weeks be- 

 fore the newly-dropped young one is 

 put to her, the bowels of the calf 

 will almost certainly be disturbed. 

 ANliere it can conveniently be accom- 

 plished, every calf should be reared 

 by its own dam. A state of consid- 

 erable purging should never be neg- 

 lected many days, and more especial- 

 ly if the animal loses its gayety or is 

 in evident pain, or the dung is unu- 

 sually offensive or tinged with blood. 

 The grand cause of this is acidity in 

 Ihestomachor intestines, which grad- 

 ually causes inflammation of the inner 

 coat of these vessels. The irritation 

 here set up is communicated to the 

 constitution generally, and exhaus- 

 tion and death ensue. Then recourse 

 must be had to a compound medi- 

 cine, the value of which cannot be 

 too highly estimated, and the farmer 

 should never be without it. There 

 should be a base, chalk, to neutral- 

 ize the acid ; an astrmgent, catechu, 

 to arrest the discharge; a sedative, 

 opium, to allay the irritation ; and a 

 carminative, ginger, to support the 

 strength of the patient. These should 

 be mingled in the proportions of eight 

 parts of the first, four of the second, 

 one of the third, and two of the fourth. 

 A large tea-spoonful of this powder 

 should be given twice or thrice in the 

 day, according to circumstances. 



'• Coslivcntss is a contrary disease 

 to this ; it should never be suffered 

 to continue long, for it is fraught 

 with danger. The best aperient for 

 calves and cattle is Epsom salts, in 

 doses of from one to two ounces, 

 with a scruple or half a drachm of 

 ginger. 



" Cough should be promptly at- 

 tended to the moment that it is heard. 

 A dose of physic, small doses of pow- 

 dered fo.xglove, with nitre, or, in bad 

 cases, a slight bleeding, will usually 

 remove it. 



"In proceeding to the diseases of 

 adult cattle, we are struck with the 

 numerous diseases of the eyt. Ulcera- 

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lion of the lids will generally yield to 

 the nitrated ointment of mercury, lo- 

 cally applied, and a course of altera- 

 tive medicine. Warts should be ex- 

 cised by means of a pair of scissors, 

 and the root touched with nitrate of 

 silver. 



" For inflammation of the haic, or 

 membrane at the corner of the eye, 

 a weak Goulard lotion, or the tincture 

 of opium, lowered with ten times its 

 quantity of water, will be useful ; but 

 if there is any fungous growth on the 

 haw, extirpation will afford the only 

 cure. Infiammahon of the eyelids will 

 generally yield to fomentations of 

 w-arm water. For inflammation of the 

 eye, warm or cold fomentations, the 

 former at the first, and the latter a 

 day or two afterward, with the opiate 

 lotion at the commencement, and a 

 very diluted one of white vitriol — two 

 grains to the ounce — when the in- 

 flammation is subdued, with a mod- 

 erate bleeding or a dose of physic, 

 will constitute the most successful 

 means of cure. Ulceration of the eye 

 will be best treated with the opiate 

 lotion, but cataract and gutta serena 

 do not admit of cure. 



'• In fracture of the horn, if the bones 

 are not quite separated, they may be 

 bound together by tarred cords or 

 splints. If there is a perfect fracture 

 of the bone, it should be sawn off as 

 closely as possible to the head, and a 

 hot iron passed over the surface. 



" Water in the head in calves, known 

 by the enlargement of the head and 

 the stupidity of the animal, admits 

 not of any cure. The giddiness which 

 is sometimes observed in then), and 

 even in the adult beasts — turning 

 round and round — is usually hope- 

 less. 



" Apoplexy, or sudden determina- 

 tion of the blood to the head, produ- 

 ced by the forcing system being car- 

 ried too far and the process of fatten- 

 ing hurried too rapidly on, can be 

 cured only by the most decisive meas- 

 ures. The animal that is thus«/;wc^ 

 must be bled until he faints, and 

 powerful purgatives administered and 

 continued. 



" Pkrensy is produced by the same 



