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merit is bettor, especially for farmers generally, because it acts 

 immediately. 



Anotlier thing farmers will find great benefit from, which is, 

 swaying the bag up. The organization is much the same as in 

 man. We almost always find it difficult to treat a swollen 

 testacle without suspension. A strap may be made with holes 

 in it, to draw up the bag; but too much pressure may do harm. 

 But if you take off the weight, you take off the tendency to the 

 flow of blood to the parts. But if you are as successful, after 

 all, with the treatment of the bags of the cow as you wish to be, 

 you will he more so than we have been with the women. A 

 low diet, for a high-bred cow that is going to give an immense 

 quantity of milk, is good. If some of the ducts become stopped, 

 you must reduce the feed, or you will have suppuration and 

 mortification. 



I always supposed that garget and inflammation wore the 

 same thing — that one was the effect of the other. I suppose that 

 garget is a permanent lesion of the organ itself. It is something 

 that you cannot cure very well. There are many cases of sup- 

 puration that farmers cannot understand, because there is no 

 outside opening. Sometimes they mistake pus for blood. 

 Inflammation is not the first cause ; there is a plugging of the 

 ducts which precedes. But, ordinarily, if the inflammation is 

 kept down, one after another of the plugs will go away. 



The best way, is not to feed a nice cow too high before coming- 

 in, and not with very good feed, but with a kind of feed that is 

 light and dry. Then I think the warm application tlie safest 

 for farmers, because they cannot apply the cold so as to reach 

 tlie disease. Then keep the bag swung up. There is a variety 

 of oils which may produce somewhat the same effect as the 

 warm applications. After the first stage is past the oil is better 

 than the warm water. We use, iif chronic cases, for females, 

 belladonna and mercurial ointments, in equal parts. This has a 

 better effect over any glandular disease than any remedy we 

 know. The diseases are the same in cattle as in the human 

 being. Those ointments can be obtained of the apothecaries. 

 This remedy is not so sudden in its action as some others, but 

 you get a better absorption of the pus. That is the same in 

 other animals as in man. 



