340 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



Treatment. — Fatten the animal, kill and send her to 

 market, before she dies, and be a complete loss. 



Palsy, or Paralysis. — This is a nervous disease, 

 and is characterized by the animal having lost the power 

 of standing. Palsy may be partial or complete. 



Cause. — Tumors on the brain, injury to, or softening 

 of the spinal cord. 



Symptoms. — Inability of the animal to move, con- 

 tinued laying, will usually eat and drink as if nothing 

 were amiss, and will continue to do so for many weeks. 



Treatment. — We are in possession of only one drug, 

 which is oftentimes of service in curing this disease, de- 

 pending on whether the paralysis be from reflex action 

 of the nerves of motion, or from entire suspension of 

 feeling. If the case be from reflex action, then this 

 medicine had better not be given; but if the nervous 

 feeling be entirely lost, the strychnia may then be given 

 in one grain doses twice in the day in the animal's feed, 

 and continue it for a week or two. 



Parasitic Lung Disease- — (See Hoose.) 



Parturient Fever. — (See Milk Fever.) 



Phthisis- — (See Consumption and Diarrhoea.) 



. Placenta. — This is a name given to the after-birth. 



Plethora- — Fatness — full of blood. 



Pleurisy. — This is inflammation of the peuro, or 

 white, fibrous, serous tissue lining the ribs within the 

 chest, and the covering of the lungs. For further par- 

 ticulars we will introduce them in the next article. 



Pleuro-pneumonia. — ''' Massachusetts Cattle Dis- 

 ease,'' or Epizootic Pleuro-pneumonia, — Pleuro- 

 pneumonia is a compound disease, as its name indicates — 



