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fever and the pain, if not much diminution of discharge, attendea the 

 removal of the constipation : it must, therefore, be danirerous to con- 

 fine the bowels again. The following prescription will be as effica- 

 cious as any : — 



RECIPE (No. 23.) 



Take, oak bark, powdered, half an ounce; powdered catechu, two drams; and 

 opium, powdered, half a scruple : mix together in a pint of gruel or warm water. 



This may be given morning and night, for a week, cautiously 

 watchino" the state of the bowels, and suspending the astrino-ent, and 

 even having recourse to physic, if the bowels should again be con- 

 fined. 



The recovery of the animal is denoted by the restoration of the 

 pulse and breathing to the natural standard, and tiie return of the 

 appetite, together with the healthy appearance of the urine. It is 

 essential, however, to exercise the greatest caution with regard to 

 the food for some little time, bearing in mind that the digrestive 

 organs have been greatly impaired.* 



CHAPTER XV. 



GARGET, OR THE DOWNFALL IN THE UDDER OF COWS. 



This is a disease of the utmost consequence to the owners of neat 

 cattle. Young cows in high condition are most liable to it, espe- 

 cially at the time of calvdng. Such as are aged are chiefly subject to 

 it daring hot and sultry weather, particularly those which are fattened 

 for the shambles; when this is the case, the loss is considerable, for 

 a summer's keep is generally thrown away. 



This disorder makes its appearance in one or more quarters of the 

 udder, which become swollen, hard, hotter than usual, and painful 

 when pressed. If the patient is a milch-cow, the secretion of milk is 



*[Red Water. — Charles Waistell, in the London Farmers' Journal, says: For a full- 

 grown cow dissolve two pounds Epsom salts in two or three pints of boiling water, 

 and give it when new milk warm; then keep her six or eight hours without food. 

 If then the salts should not have operated, give four or five quarts warm water, and 

 drive her about gently ; in a quarter of an hour it will operate; then give her as 

 much warm water as she will drink, and turn her out to graze, if the weather be 

 dry. " My brother, J. Waistell, of West Park, has used the above remedy for up- 

 wards of thirty years, and has not in all that time lost one beast by the red water. 

 Before he commenced using it, he almost invariably lost cattle annually by that dis- 

 ease. His cattle were less frequently afflicted than formerly, which he attributes to 

 his having underdrained a great part of his farm, which was wet and boggy. The 

 remedy was communicated to him by a relation, Mr. Kendall, a cow-keeper, who lot 

 maiiy years kept many cows, and occupied part of Mary-Je-bone Park, at London." 



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