DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



PART THIRD 



This part of our work is devoted to the explanation 

 and treatment of the various diseases affecting the ox, 

 together with an account of the diseases incident to 

 milch cows and to young calves. 



Cattle diseases are, in many particulars, similar to 

 those of the horse. Thus inflammation, irritation and 

 fever, are common to all animals. Still, however, there 

 are many diseases affecting cattle, in which we fail to find 

 a counterpart in any disease attacking horses. Among 

 such diseases we may mention those of contagious typhus, 

 or rinderpest, epizootic aptha, or the murrain, spleenic 

 apoplexy and quarter evil, or the black leg. 



The manner or mode of treating disease in the ox dif- 

 fers no less so from those in the horse, than one disease 

 differs from another. For it must be remembered by 

 every person who undertakes to give medicine to an ox 

 or a cow, that they have four stomachs — 1, the rumen, 

 or paunch) 2, the reticulum; 3, the manyplus', 4, the 

 abomasu7ii. For this reason, or as it were peculiarity, 

 cows or oxen should under every condition be treated 

 with medicine in a fluid form only, so that it may pass 



