412 CATTLE. 



doses of arnica, then to conium. The indurations, both those that ar€ 

 painful as well as those which are indolent, with glandular swellings 

 in the interior of the udder, yield to chamomilla, or, when they are 

 very hard and obstinate, to aconitum and mercurms vivus. The 

 nodosities which succeed an inflammation are to be treated with 

 camphora, chamomilla^ and conium, of each two doses at the interval 

 of two days. If resolution does not take place, hepai- sulpkuris (one 

 dose morning and evening) causes them to break, generally at the 

 end of thirty-six hours. 



3. Warts. — Warts, which are often produced in consequence of 

 internal disease on the bellies of the cows in great numbers, spread 

 occasionally even to the udders ; besides their repulsive appearance, 

 they prevent the animal from being milked. The remedy against 

 those which are flat, dry, and not pediculated, is dulcamara : thuja 

 is the remedy for those which are cut and mangled, oozing, and 

 suppurating : causticuvi has been more than once useful in the treat- 

 ment of bleeding warts, and those which suppurate and are painful. 

 Sometimes the wart gives place to an ulcer with everted edges, in 

 which case we must have recourse to arsenicum. 



4. Wounds. — There are often produced in the teats circular cracks 

 or chaps, which occasion to the animal great pain, and which, though 

 often caused by the brutality of the cow-herds, are attributable in 

 many cases to a morbid internal state. Those of the latter species 

 require the employment of sulphur internally, to be continued for a 

 considerable time. ]n all other circumstances, fomentations with 

 (urnica water are sufficient. 



MILK-SICKNESS, OR TREMBLES. 



This disease, peculiar to America, and hmited to a portion of the 

 valley of the Mississippi, has been reserved for this place, on account 

 of the name by which it is universally known. In cattle it is not a 

 disease of the udder, or its connections. It takes its name from the 

 illness produced in man by the use of the milk of cattle diseased by 

 the eating of some wild plant or vegetable, or the drinking of w^ater 

 poisoned by minerals. 



Dr. Graff, of Illinois, in the American Jounal of Medical Science, 

 April 1841, says : — 



The only name by which it is known, is that which I ha^-e used, 

 which is quite objectionable, as it may serve to convey an erroneous 

 impression by the supposition that milk only could produce it ; 

 whereas the flesh of an infected animal acts with an equal degree of 

 violence and rapidity. 



It is a disease peculiar to the United States, occurring seldom, if 

 ever, to the eastward of the Alleghany mountains. It is in a greater 

 or less degree met with in all the Western States, as far south as the 



