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EOR THE SCAB OR SCURF. 



Take soft soap and tar and anoint the place, 

 and it will soon cure it. 



FOR PISSING OF BLOOD. 



Take milk and bring it to a curd with run- 

 net, mix it with ash leaves and nettle seeds chop- 

 ed fine, and made into balls, to be put down the 

 beast's throat. 



* BLADDERS. 



This disease happens under the tongue, being 

 a number of small bladders, full of a watery hu- 

 mour : the beast breathes with difficulty and 

 drools at the mouth. 



Cure. — The saline watery humour must be 

 let out with an incision knife, or the bladders 

 may be broken with your fingers. Then give 

 the beast water to drink wherein bay salt and bay 

 leaves have been concocted. 



TAINT OR GARGET. 



This is a hot humour that mostly affects cows' 

 bags, but sometimes their limbs, and other cat- 

 tle also. 



Cure. — If the humour affects the cow's bag, 

 the first thing to be done, is to take two pounds 

 of blood from the neck, then put a piece of gar- 

 get root in the double skin between the fore legs, 

 with a hair rowel below that ; when the humour 

 subsides take the garget and rowel out, wash the 

 bag three or four times a day with cold brine. 

 If the swelling increases, scarify the skin and 

 wash it with the brine of salt and urine. 



If the garget affects the limbs, after bleeding, 

 you must make a tea of horse-radish root, mus- 

 tard seed and sage ; give the beast two quarts at 

 a time, daily, till well. 



