270 CATTLE. 



If the stage of debility be evidently and rapidly approaching, the 

 chance of doing good is almost gone. Yet there is no cause for 

 absolute despair. The mouth and nostrils and any suppurating 

 tumors must be washed with the chloride of lime. A small quantity 

 — half a drachm — of the powder in solution should be given inter- 

 nally, morning and night. The spirit of nitrous ether and laudanum, 

 in doses not exceeding an ounce of the former with half an ounce of 

 the latter, should be administered ; and to them may be added 

 ginger, gentian, and Colombo, the whole being given in thick gruel, 

 with half a pint of good ale. 



Malt mashes, vetches, carrots, clover, hay — according to the season 

 — may be offered as food, and, should the situation and time of the 

 year permit it, the animal should be turned into a salt-marsh as soon 

 as it has strength to travel there. 



The epidemic nature of the malady not admitting of any doubt, 

 and its contagious character being yet a question of dispute, while the 

 healthv beasts are separated from the diseased, the owner cannot too 

 often visit, nor too closely examine his cattle, in order to detect the 

 earliest symptom of the disease, and to attack it while there is fair 

 hope of success. 



The sound animals, eveiy one of them, should be bled and phys- 

 icked. This inflammation is most intense in its character, and strong 

 and healthy beasts in good condition fare the worst ; then care should 

 be taken to remove a plethoric state of the system, and thus to 

 remove the predisposition to disease. They should likewise be turned, 

 if possible, into a pasture good and containing sufficient nourishment, 

 but not quite so luxuriant as that on which they had probably been 

 placed. 



[Since the first and only edition of this work printed in England, 

 this disease has prevailed feaifully there. It is known as the 

 epizootic and pleura-pneumonia by the veterinarians ; and commonly 

 as the lung-epidemic. It is now deemed contagious. It has assumed 

 a still more terrible form, and is always fatal unless promptly treated 

 on its very commencement ; not an hour is to be lost. — Am. jBV/.] 



Homoeopathic treatment. — Some dosc^ of aconitum at short inter- 

 vals (every hour or every two hours,) generally remove the violent 

 fever, after which some doses of hryonm (one morning and night,) 

 establish a perfect cure on the second or third day. It is scarcely 

 necessary to say that the beast must be carefully watched for some 

 time, and that it must be protected from damp and cold. Neglected 

 cases of pneumonia have been cured by means of china and nitrum, 

 after tubercles had probably been formed in the lungs. If the appe- 

 tite be not soon restored, nux vomica, and aisenicum should be given, 



The following medicines will also be found very useful, — tartarus 

 emeticus, sanguinarius canadensis, phosphorus, cannabis, cinchona, rhuf 

 toxicodendron, (fee. 



