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The diseases and complaints mentioned above are 

 nearly all that afflict our dairy stock ; and the list at 

 least includes all the common diseases and their treat- 

 ment. Some of the diseases and epidemics from which 

 the cattle of Great Britain and other countries suffer 

 are not known at all here, or are of so very rare occur- 

 rence as not to have attracted attention; and among 

 these may be named pleuro-pneumonia, typhus fever, 

 cow-pox, and various epidemics which have from time to 

 time decimated the cattle of all Europe. To accidents 

 of various kinds, to wounds, trouble with the eyes, and 

 to lameness from other causes than those named, they 

 are, indeed, more or less subject ; but no work could 

 anticipate or cover the treatment best in every case, 

 and much must be left to the judgment of the owner. 



I have tried to make this chapter, which I consider 

 one of the most important of any to the dairy farmer, of 

 practical value to every one who owns or has the care of 

 a cow. But, lest a want of familiarity with some of the 

 medicines recommended for particular diseases, or the 

 fear of the expense of procuring and keeping them on 

 hand, should deter some one from providing himself 

 with a good medicine-chest, I wish to remind the reader 

 that no small portion of them are always to be found in 

 every well-regulated household, and that the others are 

 obtained at so little expense that no one need be with- 

 out them for a single day. 



Let us see, for instance, how many of them are at 

 hand. But few families are destitute of a supply of 

 ginger, camphor, red pepper, lard, molasses, cinnamon, 

 peppermint, starch, turpentine, tallow, bees-wax, bur- 

 dock, and caraway-seed. The farmer's wife or daughter 

 will generally have a supply of ammonia or hartshorn. 



Now, I wish to suggest to the farmer or dairyman 

 who happens to live at a distance from the apothecary 

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