314 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



and speak of cattle plagues, so long will veterinary sur- 

 geons continue to labor in vain for the public confidence. 

 Why should not things, states and conditions be called 

 by their right names ? Cattle disease, cattle plague and 

 rinderpest should long ago have been blotted out of the 

 books ; for at best, they only serve as a cloak or cover 

 to hide the innate ignorance and stupidity of some veteri- 

 nary surgeons, horse and cow doctors particularly. 

 The word plague means a stroke, and that is all the insight 

 a person can derive from the word. As every disease 

 may be considered a stroke, why not add what kind 

 of stroke it is, whether it be a stroke of palsy, or of the 

 sun? — For Cattle Plague. — (See Typhus Contagiosus, 

 Bourn and Pleuro-pneumonia.) 



Chicken Pox. — Varicella Bourn. — A pustular erup- 

 tion on the teats of cow's presumed to be caused by eating 

 vine leaves. The eruptions soon discharge, dry up and 

 heal, without any treatment whatever having been applied 

 to them. 



Choking. — This is of frequent occurrence among 

 cattle or cows fed upon potatoes, turnips, etc. 



Treatment. — When the potato is lodged in the upper or 

 middle third of the gullet, the mouth of the animal is to 

 be held open by means of a balling iron, or some other 

 contrivance, while a person having a small hand should 

 pass a cord like a clothes line, with a loop on the end of 

 it, and try to get the noose over and beyond the obstruc- 

 tion. If the substance be low down in the gullet, manipu- 

 lations may be tried from outside, by tightening the skin 

 upon the obstruction, and trying to move it up, if possible; 

 but downwards, if it will go without too great a force being 

 used. If this fail to remove it either up or down, try 



