348 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



Kheumatism- — (See Rheumatism in Part I. of the 



book) 



Rinderpest. — This is the Dutch name for Cattle 

 Plague. So much am I against such ignorant and unmean- 

 ing names being used by persons you would insult, if they 

 but only knew that you had but a poor opinion of their 

 scientific attainments. The disease will be found treated 

 of under the article Typhus Contagiosus Bourn, (con- 

 tagious typhus of cattle.) 



Ringworm. — This is a parasitic disease, and consists 

 in the growth of cellular tumors on the skin. Young 

 animals of one and two years are most subject to the 

 attack of the parsasites. 



Symptoms. — Broad and flattered elevations on the skin. 



Treatment. — If left to themselves they will die out in a 

 year. The oxide of zinc ointment will speedily cure the 

 affection. It is considered a contagious disease, although 

 not a fatal one. — (See Ointments in Part II. of the book.) 



Rot. — (See Diarrhoea and Consumption.) 



Rumen or Paunch. — This is the first stomach and 

 is the receptacle for all food that is gathered, and is kept 

 there till wanted, or till the rumen is full, when rumina- 

 tion is usually begun by contraction of the rumen upon 

 its contents, whereby portions of the food are forced into 

 the gullet and mouth, to be remasticated, and finally 

 passes down the gullet again this time, not over the floor 

 of the canal, but it separates the pillars, and passes not 

 into the rumen, but into the manyplus, or third stomach. 



Rupture in Calves. — The rupture we are now con- 

 sidering is what is known by the name Umbilical, which 

 occurs in young colts and calves, and consists in the pro- 

 trusion of a portion of the bowel and intestine through 



