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analogous to what is termed ' musselling ' in the human subject. It 

 is characterized by the sudden springing up of patchy, elastic swell- 

 ings all over the body, which, however, cause little or no distress to 

 the animal, and may disappear quite as suddenly as they came. The 

 cause is generally traceable to some strange food, or quality of food, 

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

 hay, or oats, Indian corn, etc. Treatment.— For the horse, from 1 to 

 2 ounces of bicarbonate of soda, or the same quantity of hyposulphite 

 of soda, dissolved in 1 pint of cold water, to which is added J pint of 

 whisky, if given when first observed, will generally be found to have 

 the desired effect. 



450. In the cow this complaint is most frequently met with 

 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 foams 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 animal 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 linseed oil or milk, or 2 ounces either of bicarbonate of 

 soda or of hyposulphite of soda may be given in 1 pint of cold 

 water, to which \ pint of whisky has been added. After this the 

 animal should be left alone, and a little patience exercised on the 

 owner's part. 



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

 Morning Complaint, consists of inflammation of the absorbent 

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

 ally, however, it is met with in the fore-legs. It generally appears on 

 Monday mornings after Sunday's rest — and perhaps overfed — and 

 affects heavy horses, more particularly the sluggish, gummy-legged 



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