338 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



perfect recovery in most diseases, and as much so if not 

 more in a disease of this kind. 



Milk Trembles- — This is a disease seen in the 

 wooded country of the South and South-west, and depends 

 upon cold, moisture and miasma. The disease disappears 

 with improvements and clearing of the land from timber. 



Treatment. — Give gentian, ginger, and fenugreec, of 

 each, half an ounce; mix, and make one dose, which may 

 be repeated once in the day. 



Moor Evil.— (See Red Water.) 



Mouth Disoase. — (See Epizootic Aphtha.) 



Murrain. — This is oneof jihose names given to diseases 

 of cattle which ought long ag(Kto have been expunged 

 from the books and writings of men^who ought if they do 

 not know that the word murrain means to die. By classi- 

 cal scholars, orators, and poets the word, murrain may 

 be taken as an indication that they have read Virgil, 

 Homer and Horace; but when cow doctors talk about the 

 murrain, it conveys the reverse idea we entertain about 

 the orator and poet. Cattle plagues and murrain are ex- 

 cellent names, whereby the ignorant pretender gains credit 

 among farmers and others, for a knowledge he never did 

 possess. The name murrain may then be given to any 

 disease or diseases, however different the one may be from 

 the other in sign, symptom and seat, providing that the 

 beast die. It will be observed, however, that if the animal 

 should live, murrain c£^n't or could not be its right or proper 

 name. Murrain as applied to cattle diseases conveys no 

 idea of the nature or seat of the disease, and may be given 

 to any disease a man may choose. In some parts of the 

 world, murrain is applied to epizootic aphtha, a disease 

 affecting the mouth and feet, and withal, not a deadly 



