264 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



192. Black water is only the aggravated and latter stages of the 

 above 



193. luflammatiGn of the bladder also now and then occurs, and 

 in no wise differs from the cystisis of the horse, in consequences 

 and treatment. (62.) 



194. The colics of cattle, arise from different causes; they are 

 subject to a spasmodic colic, not unlike that of horses, and which is 

 removed by the same means. (53.) Costiveness also brings on a colic 

 in them, called clue bound, fardel bound, &c. which often ends in 

 red colic, unless early removed ; the treatment of this'we have fully 

 detailed. (55.) Another colic is accompanied with relaxation of 

 bowels. 



195. Diarrhoea, scouring, or scouring cow, is common in cattle, 

 and is brought on by exposure to rain, improper change of food, 

 over driving, and other violences. It is essentially necessary that 

 the animals be taken under cover, kept warm and dry, and have 

 nutritious food allowed them. The medical treatment has been 

 detailed. (52.) 



196. Dysentery or braxy, bloody ray, and slimy flux, differs from 

 simple scouring, in a greater degree of fever attending it, and in its 

 being an inflammation of a particular kind, and part of the intes- 

 tines. It is frequently dependent on a vitiated putrid state of the 

 bile, brought on by over driving in hot weather, low damp pastures 

 in autumn, &c. The discharge is characterized by its bad smell, 

 and by the mucous stringy patches in it, and also by its heat and 

 smoking when voided ; all which are very different from the mere 

 discharge of the aliments in a state of solution in diarrhoea, and 

 which differences should be carefully marked to distinguish the one 

 from the other ; treat as under dysentery in the horse, (49.) 



197. Yellows. When active fever is not present, and yet cattle 

 are very dull, with great yellowness of eyelids, nostrils, &c. it 

 arises from some biliary obstruction, to which oxen and cows are 

 more liable than horses, from their being furnished with a gall 

 bladder : it is a more common complaint in some of the cold pro- 

 vinces on the continent, where they are housed and stall fed all the 

 year round, than it is in England. The treatment is the same as 

 detailed for chronic inflammation of the liver in horses (59) adding 

 in every instance to it, a change of pasturage, and if convenient, 

 into salt marshes, which will alone often effect a cure 



