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The two first are excellent stomachics, as well as tonics ; the last is 

 a tonic, simply because it is the very best stomachic in the cattle 

 pharmacopoeia. They may be given three times every day, in doses 

 of a drachm each of the two first, and half a drachm of the last. 

 They will be more effectual in these moderate doses than in the 

 overwhelming quantities in which some administer them, and in which 

 they oppress and cause nausea, rather than stimulate and give 

 appetite. They should always be given in gruel, with half a pint or 

 even a pint of sound ale. 



The practitioner may possibly be called in after ulcers have broken 

 out, and the sloughing process has commenced : there must be no 

 bleeding then ; the vitality of the system has received a sufficient 

 shock, and various parts of it are actually decomposing ; but physic 

 is necessary, with a double dose of the aromatic, in order to rouse the 

 energies of the digestive system, and to get rid of much offensive and 

 dangerous matter collected in the intestinal canal. Epsom salts will 

 here also constitute the best purgative. The enlargements about the 

 knee, and elbow, and stifle, and hock, should be fomented with warm 

 water ; and any considerable indurations, and especially about the 

 joints, embrocated with equal parts of turpentine, hartshorn, and 

 camphorated spirit. 



The ulcers should be carefully and thoroughly washed several 

 times every day with a solution of the chloride of lime, of the strength 

 already recommended. The ulcers about the muzzle, mouth, and 

 throat, should be treated in a similar manner ; and a pint of the 

 solution may be horned down twice in the course of the first day. 

 If there be hoose or bloat, this will combine with the extricated gas, 

 and prevent the continued formation of it ; and it will materially cor- 

 rect the fetor which pervades the whole of the digestive canal. 

 Mashes and plenty of thick gruel should be offered to the beast, and 

 forced upon him by means of the stomach-pump if he refuse to take 

 it voluntarily. In this case, the pipe should not be introduced more 

 than half-way down the oesophagus, as there will then be greater 

 probability of the liquor flowing on into the fourth stomach. 



Tonics should on no account be neglected, but be administered 

 simply to rouse to action the languid or almost lifeless powers of the 

 frame. 



If the stench from the ulcers does not abate, the solution of the 

 chloride should be quickly increased to a double strength ; but as 

 soon as the fetor has ceased, and the wounds begin to have a 

 healthy appearance, the healing ointment or the tincture of aloes 

 may be adopted, and the latter is preferable. When the nnimal 

 begins to eat, he should be turned into a field close at hand, the 

 grass of which has been cropped pretty closely. A seton or a rowel 

 should be retained for three or four weeks ; but as for medicine, it 

 cannot be too soon discontinued when the animal is once set on it* 



