40 COLD AND COUGH HOOSE. 



I'ho innnmniation is slight; the animal is scarcely ill at ;ill ; tVif? 

 couuh remits and returns, wiih f)r without his ohservation. He adds 

 to it, |)(Mh..j)s, by improper treatnieul. He exposes the beast unne- 

 cessarily to coKl or wet; or he crowds his cattle into stabl?s shame- 

 fully snVall compared with the number of the animals, and the air is 

 hot"^and nauseous, and ciiar^ed with watery tluid thrown oil" from the 

 lunns and from the skin. The coufrh increases, it becomes hoarse, 

 ainf harsh, and painful ; and that alleclion is established which oftener 

 /ays the fouhdation for consumption and death than any other malady 

 to w hich these animals are ex])osed. 



That farmer is inattentive to his own interests who suffers a coucrh, 

 and espi cially a hoarse, feeble cough, to iiano about his cattle longer 

 tlian he can help. He should be warned in time, before his cows are 

 gfetling oil" their feed, and becoming tliin, and are half dry ; for then 

 it wilfgenerally be too late to seek for advice, or to have recourse to 

 mcdicafcare: the disease has fastened* upon a vital part, and the 

 constitution is undermined. 



Cough occasionally assumes an epidemic character — from sudden 

 changes of the weather, chiefly and particularly in the spring and the 

 fvill of the year : it then spreads over a great part of the country, and 

 is often particularly severe. 



'I'he symptoms of epidemic cold or catarrh, or influenza, as it ia 

 sometimes called, are frequently serious. The beast is dull and 

 heavy, with weeping at the eyes„ and dry muzzle; the hair looks 

 pen-foathcred, or staging ; the appetite fails; the secretion of milk ia 

 diminished; there is considerable heaving of the flanks; the pulse 

 is from 60 to 70, and tlie bowels are generally costive or sapped. 



Cattle that have been tenderly managed during the winter, and 

 cows after calving, are very subject to it, especially if they have been 

 poorly fed, or driven long distances, and exposed to a cold, piercing 

 wind. 



h will be necessary to commence the treatment of this disease with 

 bleeding. From four to six quarts of blood should be taken, and then 

 a dose of phvsic administered. The f .llowing will be a good purga- 

 tive medicine in such a case : — 



RECIPE (l^w. 2). 

 Purgivff Driwft.— Take epsnm salts, one potiiiii ; powdered caraway-seeds, half an 

 our.ce.'^ Dissolve in a quart of uariii gruel, and give. 



After that the drink No. 1 should be given morning and night, the 

 drink No. 2 being repeated if the bowels should be costive. 



It will be proper to house the beast, and especially at night; and a 

 mash of scalded bran with a few oats in it, if there is no fever, should 

 be allowed. It is necessary carefully to watch the animals that are 

 •abouring under this complaint; and, "if the heaving should continue, 

 or the muzzle afjain become or continue dry, and the breath hot, more 

 blood should be^ taken away, and the purging drink repeated. At the 

 close of the epidemic catarrh the animal will sometimes be left weak 



