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either relieved or dead. As soon as decided relief is obtained, a dose 

 of physic should be given, nnd if any fever seems to be coming on, a 

 few pounds of blood should be taken away. 



Cattle in the neighborhood of lead-mines have been dangerously 

 aflFected from the effects of this ore in the grass. Difficult respiration 

 with loud wheezing is one of the most prominent symptoms, the beast 

 losing its appetite, pining away, and at length dying of suffocation or 

 attacked by epileptic symptoms. Large doses of Epsom or Glauber's 

 salts, with linseed oil, and followed by opium, are the best remedies. 

 The smoke from copper-mines has also produced sad disease amongst 

 animals in the neighborhood : it causes swellings of the joints, of a 

 painful description. An early removal to another soil forms the best 

 treatment. 



Ranking under the general term of poisons, we may mention the 

 bites of venomous reptiles. The beast is generally stung about the 

 head or feet, for it is most likely to disturb these reptiles either in the 

 act of browsing, or as it wanders over the pasture. Cattle bitten in 

 the tongue almost invariably die. They are suffocated by the rapid 

 swelling which takes place. The udder has occasionally been stung ; 

 but the supposed bites on the teats are, far oftener than otherwise, 

 the effect of garget. 



Emhi'ocation for Bite of Reptiles. — Take hartshorn, and olive oil, 

 /qual quantities. Shake them well together, and rub the wound and 

 the neighboring parts well with the liniment morning and night. 



A quart of olive oil should also be given to the animal, mixed with 

 an ounce of hartshorn. Oil of turpentine may be used when harts- 

 horn cannot be procured ; but it is not so much to be depended upon. 



The stings of horneis, wasps, and bees, in some cases prodiJce 

 much temporary swelling and pain. If the part be well rubbed with 

 warm vinegar, the inconvenience will soon subside. 



DISEASES OF THE RETICULUM. 



Of these, in the present state of knowledge of cattle-medicine, little 

 can be said. Some of the foreign substances that are found in the 

 rumen have been occasionaly discovered in the reticulum, as pins, 

 pieces of wire, nails, small stones, kc. They were, probably, ejected 

 over the valve between the two stomachs, enveloped by, or attached 

 to, the portion of food that was preparing for a second mastication. 

 In the forcible contraction of the stomach, it has been severely 

 wounded by these, and so much inflammation has ensued that the 

 animal has been lost. 



The writer of this treatise hab frequently seen inflammation of the 

 second stomach — sometimes accompanying that of the paunch, and 

 at other times seemingly confined to the reticulum. This inflam- 

 mation was, as in the rumen, characterized by the peeling off of the 

 cuticular coat, and the redness of the tissue beneath it; but the 



