336 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



tics attending upon farcy in horses, but without any 

 specific poison being developed. 



Treatment. — A dose of salts internally and formenta- 

 tions or poultices apply to the swelling and to the sores if 

 there be any, which will depend whether the skin gives 

 way or not. 



Malignant Catarrh. — (See Catarrhus, etc.) 



Mammitis. — (See Garget.) 



Mange. — (See Mange in Part I of the book.) 



Milk Fever. — Fehris Lactea. — Milk fever occurs 

 from the first to the third day after calvipg. Rarely after 

 the third day, and is seldom met with before the fourth 

 calving, and then attacking chiefly cows of select breeds, 

 and good milkers. Milk fever consists in inflammation 

 of the womb, and sometimes even extending to the bowels. 



Symptoms. — Loss of appetite, chewing the cud, or rumi- 

 nation ceases, staggering gait, wild look, falls and cannot 

 rise; and if the disease be not checked the brain will soon 

 be afi'ected also, then the cow will dash about with her 

 head and horns plunging them into the ground. 



Cause. — Undue determination of the blood to the womb 

 from over feeding before, and immediately after calving, 

 and from sudden changes of the weather at the time of 

 calving. 



Prevention. — Give one week before calving, one pound 

 of epsom salts, half a pound of table salt, and half an 

 ounce of ground ginger mixed in four bottles of cold water, 

 and sweetened with molasses. Let the cow's feed be of 

 the lightest kind, such as hay and thin slop mashes, and 

 no meal, grain or solid food. This measure will lessen 

 the tendency to interruption of the circulation, and will 



