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but if the cafe fhouid prove obftinate, it will 

 be proper to give a clyfter with plenty of falc 

 in it, which will foften and quickly bring away 

 the indurated faeces. Sonne farriers are very 

 fond of prefcribing caftor oil for this diflemper, 

 but I never found it anfwer fo well as my re- 

 medy. 



There is another diforder to which cattle 

 are fubjefV, called the tail-wormy and nunnbers 

 die of it. When a bead is attacked by this 

 diforder, he finds great difficulty in rifing from 

 the ground -, and if the diforder is negledted 

 until it becomes violent, he is unable to rife 

 at all when once down. Some attribute this 

 difeafe to the bead having been ftricken by 

 lightning, or think the bcaft has broken its 

 back. Both fat and lean beads are liable to 

 this diforder, and the fat bead is not perceived 

 to decreafe much in flelli until the diforder is 

 fo increafed as toprevent him from rifing; and 

 in fome cafes, where the progreffion of the dif- 

 eafe is flovv^, it will be a long time before that 

 happens. A careful man will eafily difcover by 

 thefe fymptoms when a bead is attacked by the 

 diforder: he will make frequent attempts to 



rife, 



