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of the tincture of aconite root every three hours, till 

 four or five doses are given. Tnis will relieve pain, 

 and control the circulation. 



Fardel Bound. — This is a disease affecting the 

 omasum, or third stomach of the cow or ox. (See Impac- 

 tion of the Stomach and Hoven.) 



Fever. — Cows are subject to ejphemral fever, or more 

 plainly speaking, a fever of a days duration, and passes 

 of without any trouble. This fever has been thought by 

 some persons, to depend upon hollow horn and wolf in 

 the tail, and consequently have cut the tail, and bored 

 the horns of the poor dumb brute. 



Foul Claw. — Foul in the Foot — This is a sore in 

 between the digital spaces, and is caused by the animal 

 standing in mud and moisture, which scalds the parts, 

 and produces lameness. 



Treatment. — Cleanse out the space with a hair rope or 

 by some other means, and apply sulphate of zinc, one 

 drachm ; water, half a pint. Keep the feet dry and 

 clean, which will not only assist the cure, but is a pre- 

 ventive also. 



Gangrene of the Tail, or Gangrena Caudce Epizoo- 

 tica. — This is not, as yet at all events, an American dis- 

 ease, but is of frequent occurrence among the cows of 

 continental Europe. This fact, however, I believe to be' 

 the only true reason why we m Pennsylvania will persist 

 that cows have wolves in the tail, accompanied with an 

 empty horn. 



Cause. — Unknown. 



Symptoms. — We are told by Hering and Rychner that 

 that the tail becomes paralyzed, its skin soft, swollen, 

 and filled with water at its end, and when opened, a bad 



