06 DISEASE OF ANIMALS. 



feetant, and nas a salutary effect on the bowels, which, 

 in a severe case, and advanced stage of this disease, are 

 tending to a putrid condition. 



Some of the remedies recommended for Looseness in 

 Calves, and for Scours and Dysentery in Sheep, are good 

 for cattle. 



LOOSENESS, OR SCOURS, IN CALVES. 



Young calves are frequently destroyed by scours, if 

 not stopped soon after the attack. The disease is often 

 caused by exposure to too great heat or cold ; sometimes 

 to rains, and frequently to too great a flow of milk, 

 when the dam's udder is feverish, or when she eats 

 unwholesome food. The mucous membrane becomes 

 inflamed, the discharges are white and watery, and if 

 the disease is not checked in a few days, or weeks at 

 most, the lungs inflame, and death ensues. When the 

 little animal becomes affected, it should be put in a 

 warm, dry stable, and not permitted to suck more than 

 half the quantity of milk it is wont to do, but should be 

 let to the cow regularly three times during the day. 



Remedy. Make a tea, of equal portions of white oak, 

 beech, and slippery-elm bark, and give in moderate 

 doses, twice a day. Linden or bass wood, or white pine, 

 may be substituted for slippery-elm; and raspberry, or 

 other vegetable astringent, for white oak. 



Another. A little powdered chalk, given daily. If 

 calves are supplied with chalk, &c., as recommended on 

 page 181, they will seldom be troubled with this dis- 

 order. 



Another. A table spoonful of ground allspice in a 

 gill of boiling water, given when lukewarm, twice a 

 day. 



Another. Give, twice a day, half an ounce of salts, 

 equal proportions of Epsom and Glauber's. An experi- 

 enced veterinarian recommends this as very safe and 

 effectual. 



Another. Break, and beat up two eggs, and pour 

 hem down the throat, twice a day. [See the last two 

 utiles, page 3^4.] 



