CATTLE. 



Take alum and white vitriol, of each half an ounce ; molasses, a quar- 

 ter of a pint. Dissolve iri a pint of warm water. 



The feet sliould be carefully pared, and if much inflamed, a poultice 

 may be applied ; but if not so, and there is a sore, equal parts of 

 tincture of myrrh and butyr of antimony. One application of this 

 caustic is generally sufficient, and the sore should afterwards be 

 dressed once a day with the following : — 



Astringent Powder. — Take blue vitriol, powdered, half an ounce ; 

 powdered alum, half an ounce ; prepared chalk, two ounces ; arme- 

 nian bole, one ounce. 



Linseed and oatmeal gruel should be offered to drink, and mashes, 

 with the best food tliat can be procured. If the weather be fine, it 

 will be better to continue the cattle at grass ; but if housed, they 

 should be kept clean and dry. When the bowels are relaxed, and 

 there appears much weakness, the following tonic should be given 

 daily : — 



Take powdered ginger, one drachm ; powdered caraway seeds, 

 one drachm ; gentian, powdered, four drachms ; spirit of nitrous 

 ether, one ounce. To be mixed slowly with gruel. 



If there should be any appearance of colic or spasm of the bowels, 

 an ounce of laudanum may be given with the other medicine ; and if 

 the liver be affected, a drachm of calomel may be added, and a blis- 

 tering apphcation rubbed on the right side. 



Should the lungs be inflamed, it will be proper to bleed and blister 

 the sides, or insert setons in the brisket. If the udder be affected, it 

 should be well and frequently fomented with hot water, and the milk 

 should be drawn with great care. 



PHARYNGITES — SORE THROAT. 



Inflammation of the respiratory passages is often confined to particu- 

 lar and to very small portions of them. The posterior part of the 

 mouth, the pharynx, through the funnel-shaped cavity of which the 

 food passes in order to arrive at the gullet, is peculiarly subject to 

 inflammation : it is recognized under the term sore throat, and is 

 usually accompanied with cough, and other symptoms of catarrh. 



The characteristic symptoms are disinclination to food, suspension 

 of rumination, and difficulty in swallowing. Solid food is either 

 dropped from tlie mouth when partly masticated, or it is forced down 

 by a painful effort ; liquids are generally obstinately refused, or are 

 swallowed by a convulsive kind of gulp. There is tenderness extend- 

 ing from ear to ear, and usually some degree of enlargement in 

 proportion to the inflammation of the neighboring parts, and especially 

 the parotid glands are involved. Occasionally the irritation of the 

 pharynx produces constriction of its muscles, and a portion of the 

 food, both solid an«i fluid, is returned through the nostrils. The 



