260 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



cattle, was given by Mr. Jones, of Gloucester county, Va. to Mr. 

 Benjamin Harrison, of Charles City County, Va. — " A quart of the 

 infusion of cedar berries, (containing about half a pint of the ber- 

 ries) was given at a time, and in nearly every case the good effects 

 were almost instantaneous : a considerable discharge from the 

 bladder and bowels followed, and in five or ten minutes time, the 

 animal began to eat. In nineteen cases out of twenty a perfect 

 cure was effected. It may be necessary to repeat the drench four 

 or five times." 



182. The prevention of the murrain, or the prevention of its 

 spreading, in many respects is even more important than its medical 

 treatment. Where it has already appeared, all the out-buildings, 

 but particularly the ox-lodges or stalls, should be daily fumigated 

 with the preventive fumigation (161 ;) and, even the whole of the 

 infected districts should have f\-equent fires of green wood made in 

 the open air, and every such district should be put under rigorous 

 quarantine. The cattle on every farm should be carefelly examined 

 three or four times every day, and the moment one is found to droop, 

 he should be removed to a distance from the others. In very bad 

 weather, while it is prevalent, the healthy cattle should be housed, 

 and particularly well fed ; and their pastures should also be changed. 

 The bodies of those who die o»f the disease should be buried with 

 their skins on, very deep in the earth, and quick lime should be 

 strewed over them. — Prevention — Mr. Wm. Minge, (of James 

 River, Va.) recommends the u se of a mixture of clay, salt, (in the 

 common proportion for slock) tar and powdered brimstone. For 

 fifty head, one gallon of tar and half a pound of brimstone, per week, 

 put in a trough to which the cattle had free access. The disease, 

 it appears, is endemic in Virginia, particularly in the districts bor 

 dering on tide water. 



183. Phrenzy fever, or inflammation of the brain, called also 

 cough, now and then, but by no means frequently, attacks cattle 

 The symptoms differ but little from those which attack horses.- 

 The treatment must be exactly similar. 



184. Inflammation of the lungs occasionally occurs in cattle, in 

 which also the symptoms, progress, and proper treatment, are similar 

 to those detailed under that head in horse pathology (31.) 



185. Inflammation of the stomach sometimes occurs from poison- 

 ous matters ; and in such cases, when the nature of the poison is 

 discovered, the treatment detailed under poison in horse pathology 



