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the notion of removing flatulence, and promoting digestion, and invi- 

 gorating tlie system. The fever, of wliich tliis costiveness is either 

 the foreiunner or the cause, would only be hastened and aggravated 

 by this absurd system of stimulation. 



THE HOOSE IN CALVES. 



This disease in the adult animal has already been considered : in 

 the calf it assumes different and more aggravated symptoms, and is 

 more speedily connected with consumption and death. The moment 

 a calf is observed to cough violently, he should be removed from the 

 pasture, and put under tolerably warm shelter and taken care of. A 

 bleeding and a dose of physic, and a fever pow^der, will then usually 

 restore the animal to perfect health. 



At times the hoose is epidemic among cattle, and hundreds of them 

 die. Proper treatment at first will, in the majority of cases, remedy 

 the evil ; but should the animal get rapidly w^orse, and his cough be 

 peculiarly violent and distressing, care should be taken to examine 

 the first that happens to die, on the farmer's own estate, or that of 

 his neighbour, and if the windpipe and the air-tubes below should be 

 found filled with the worms which have already been described, re- 

 course should be had to the spirit of turpentine, which will often 

 succeed in destroying them. The principle on which the turpentine 

 acts has been already explained. The following will be found a good 

 formula for its administration to calves from six to twelve months 

 old:— 



RECIPE (No. 64). 

 Take oil of turpentine, one ounce; linseed oil, three or four ounces; finger, pow- 

 iered, one drachm. Mix. To be repeated at the interval of a week, as often as may 

 be required. 



^ A cure has also been obtained by the exhibition of half a pint of 

 lime-water every morning and a table-spoonful of salt the same after- 

 noon. The origin of these worms has not yet been satisfactorily 

 developed ; but it is supposed that the eggs are taken with the watei 

 absorbed by the blood-vessels, and thus enter the windpipe, where 

 they are hatched : but one thing is certain, that in nine cases out of 

 ten the farmer may attribute all the losses he sustains to neglect of 

 the calf, or premature exposure of him to cold and wet. 



CANKER IN THE MOUTH. 



The teeth of the young calf follow each other in rapid succession 

 and, as is the case whh. the human infant, the cutting of the teeth is 

 attended by soreness of the mouth, and disinclination°to eat. Numer- 

 ous pimples also appear about the gums and membrane of the mouth, 

 and these often run together, considerable ulceration follows, and the 

 animal pines away through lack of nutriment. The gums and tongue 

 are sometimes considerably swollen, and no small deo-ree of fever is 

 excited. The first business is to evacuate the bowels? Epsom salts 

 will here also constitute the preferable medicine, given in doses of 

 one or two ounces, and repeated daily until the proper effe'-t is pro 



