CATTLE. 



legs. When art has subdued the disease, nature, although sloivly, 

 will most successfully resume her wonted functions. 



The breeder has much in his power in the way of prevention. His 

 cattle should be carefully examined every day. Any little heaving 

 at the flanks, or inflammation of the eyes, or heat-bumps on the back, 

 or rubbing, sliould be regarded with suspicion, and met by a gentle 

 purgative, or the abstraction of a little blood ; but the decided 

 appearance of inflammatory fever in one of them will not be misun- 

 derstood for a moment ; it will convince him that he has been making 

 more haste than good speed, and in the disease of one he will see the 

 danger of all. All who have been subject to the same predisposing 

 causes of disease, should be bled and physicked, and turned into a 

 field of short and inferior keep. 



Prevention of this malady is the only cure worth notice. A piece 

 of short or inferior keep should be reserved as a digesting place, in 

 which the cattle may be occasionally turned to empty and exercise 

 themselves. Those observed to advance very fast may be bled 

 monthly for several months ; but occasional purges of alterative 

 medicines would prevent those diseases which seem to take their rise 

 in over-repletion and accumulation, and are far better than bleeding. 



These periodical bleedings increase rather than lessen the disposi- 

 tion to make blood and fat. 



This disease differs materially in its symptoms in difierent districts, 

 and in the same district at different times. The difficulty lies in the 

 other diseases with which the inflammatory fever is combined — some- 

 times one, and sometimes another, assuming a prominent character ; 

 and while they all generally follow inflammatory fever, yet some of 

 them occasionally precede it. 



In some places, the first symptoms are those of quarter-ill. The 

 cattle are seized first in one quarter, and then in the other. The skin 

 puffs up, and the crackling noise is heard almost from the beginning. 

 The disease is usually fatal when it assumes this form. 



In others, where, from the rapidity with which it runs its course, it 

 is called the speed, it also generally begins behind. Inflammation, or 

 rather mortification, seizes one hock. It runs up the quarter, w^hich 

 becomes actually puti'id in the couse of an hour or two, while the 

 other limbs continue sound. Few, especially young beasts, survive 

 an attack of this kind. Here the active use of local apphcations is 

 indicated ; and yet they will rarely be of much sen'ice. 



In other parts, under the name of the puck, the fore-quarter, or the 

 side, is the part mostly affected ; and the animal frequently dies in an 

 hour or two. On skinning the beast, the whole quarter appears 

 black from the extravasation of blood, and is softened and decom- 

 posed, as though it were one universal bruise. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — The principal remedy for the treatment 

 of this fever is zeonitum, which should be repeated at inter rals, so 



