CATTLE. 



adhesive or bloody mucous fluid ; the larger intestines are even more 

 inflamed ; they exhibit more extensive ulceration, and contain many 

 clots of eff'used blood. The rectum is ulcerated and gangrenous from 

 end to end. 



There is usually considerable effusion in the chest ; the coverings 

 of the lungs are inflamed ; the bag of the heart more so ; the sub- 

 stance of the lungs is sometimes emphysematous, and at other times 

 gorged with blood, and the heart is marked with black spots out- 

 wardly, and in its cavities. The lining membrane of all the air-pass- 

 ages is of a red brown color ; the larynx and the pharynx are 

 intensely red, and so is the membrane of the gullet. 



Of the causes of this disease it is difficult to speak. It seems 

 occasionally to be epidemic, for several instances of it occur, of the 

 same character, and in the same district. 



When isolated cases occur, they may generally be attributed to 

 mismanagement. Exposure to cold, or the drinking of cold water 

 when heated with work ; too hard work in sultry weather ; the use 

 of water stagnant, impure, or containing any considerable quantity of 

 metallic salts ; the sudden revulsion of some cutaneous eruption ; the 

 crowding of animals into a confined place ; too luxuriant and stimu- 

 lating food generally ; and the mildewed and unwholesome food on 

 which cattle are too often kept, are fruitful sources of this complaint. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — Aconitum is to be given in doses repeated 

 every fifteen or twenty minutes, until the most prominent symptoms 

 of the inflammation have disappeared. If this end be not attained 

 after some hours, or if, notwithstanding a perceptible improvement, 

 pain still remains, arsenicum is to be given. The medicine alternately 

 with aconitum, has sometimes, it is said, produced good eftects. It 

 is particularly indicated when the disease has been occasioned by 

 cold drinks, or by improper food and disturbance of digestion. 

 When aconitum and arsenicum fail, we must have recourse to carbo 

 vtgetabllis and rhus toxicodendron. 



WOOD-EVIL, MOOR-ILL, PANTAS. 



These are but varieties of the same disease, frequently produced, 

 as the first name would import, by browsing on the young buds of 

 trees, and particularly on those of the ash and the oak. These 

 buds are tempting to cattle at the commencement of the spring, but 

 they are of too acrid and stimulating a character to be eaten with 

 impunity in any considerable quantities. Heat of the mouth and skin 

 — redness of the membranes — thirst — obstinate constipation — hard- 

 ness of the little faeces that are expelled — the covering of them with 

 mucus and blood — difficulty of voiding urine, and its red color and 

 penetrating odor — colicky pains — depression — are the characteristic 

 symptoms of this disease. 



Some veterinarians give the name of wood-evil to complaints allied 



