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termed hoove. The first indication of 

 cure is to get rid of the gas ; this 

 may he accomplished hy the introduc- 

 tion of substances that will chemi- 

 cally combine with it : the chloride 

 of lime will effect this. The princi- 

 pal gas in the inflated stomach is a 

 compound of hydrogen. The chlo- 

 rine leaves the lime and combines 

 with the hydrogen, and the compound 

 does not occupy a thousandth part of 

 the space previously occupied by the 

 hydrogen. Two drachms of the chlo- 

 ride of lime will form a cheap and a 

 very efficient agent ; but if this is 

 not at hand, then a puncture may be 

 made into the left flank with perfect 

 safety. If this is done with a trocar, 

 the canula may remain in the wound, 

 and the gas will continue to be ex- 

 tricated while any considerable por- 

 tion of it remains. In default of a 

 trocar, a penknife may be used ; but 

 as the upper portion of the stomach 

 sinks with the disengagement of the 

 gas, the aperture through the skin 

 and that into the rumen will cease to 

 be accurately opposed to each other, 

 and some of the gas and the contents 

 of the stomach will enter the cavity 

 of the abdomen, and will be the cause 

 of future illness, or, perchance, of 

 death. 



" The gas having escaped, a pur- 

 gative should be administered, with 

 a double dose of the aromatic, in or- 

 der to excite the stomach to resume 

 its duty. Hoove, or hoven, is to be 

 avoided by not letting cattle get at 

 too much green food in spring. 



"The loss of cud, or the cessation 

 of rumination, is only the indication 

 or the consequence of other disease, 

 and will cease with it. If the nature 

 of that disease is not clear, a dose of 

 physic, with the usual or more than 

 the usual quantity of the carminative, 

 may be given. 



" The diseases of the second stom- 

 ach, the reticulum, or honeycomb, are 

 few, and not easily distinguished : 

 the simple function of that stomach 

 is to prepare the pellet of food for re- 

 mastication. 



" The third stomach, the manypUes, 

 has more to do. The food which has 

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not undergone sufficient comminu- 

 tion in the second mastication is 

 seized by the rough and powerful 

 leaves of this stomach, and is ground 

 down, as it were, in a living mill. 

 Sometimes, however, there is a de- 

 ficiency of moisture in this stomach, 

 or the muscular apparatus of the 

 leaves does not act with sufficient 

 energy ; and at length the manyplie 

 becomes perfectly paralyzed by the 

 distention caused in consequence of 

 the undue quantity of food which is 

 accumulated in it : this is known by 

 the name of fardel-hound. The symp- 

 toms are not always evident. Dul- 

 ness, want of appetite, disinclination 

 to move, and costiveness, are among 

 the usual indications. The treatment 

 is simple, but too often inefTectual. 

 It consists in the frequent adminis- 

 tration of small doses of purgative 

 medicine, with more than the usual 

 quantity of carminatives ; at the same 

 time, a small stream of warm water 

 is, by means of a horn or the stom- 

 ach-pump, made to flow down the 

 gullet and pass through the canal at 

 the base of this stomach, thus grad- 

 ually dislodging and washing away a 

 portion of the accumulated and hard- 

 ened contents. 



" The principal disease of the aho- 

 masum, or fourth stomach, is inflam- 

 mation, designated by evident unea- 

 siness, the resting of the muzzle on 

 the situation of this stomach, or a 

 peculiar stretching out of the fore 

 legs. Venesection and purgatives 

 should be used in this case. Of the 

 indications of disease in the spleen, 

 little is known ; inflammation is oft- 

 en found in it, with enlargement, in- 

 duration, or softening of its sub- 

 stance. These circumstances, how- 

 ever, are rarely suspected during life. 



" To diseases of the liver these ani- 

 mals appear to be peculiarly prone. 

 A yellowness of the skin betrays the 

 existence of biliary afl^ections in a 

 great proportion of the inhabitants of 

 every dairy. When acute inflamma- 

 tion of the liver exists to any con- 

 siderable extent, not only this yellow 

 tint of the integument will be found, 

 but tenderness on the right side, ful- 



