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small quantity at a time, changing it daily. When a 

 wound has been a length of time in healing, proud flesh 

 will sometimes appear. This can be eaten off with a 

 very small quantity of red precipitate or blue vitriol. 



Maggots in Wounds. — Wash the wound with weak 

 soap-suds, and apply tar and lard, in equal quantities, 

 keeping the wound from exposure to the weather. 



STAGGERS. 



This disease is most common in the spring to cattle 

 that have been kept poorly during the winter. 



Symptoms. — Drowsiness, inflamed eyes, head hanging 

 down, and reeling. 



Rernedy. — Give a thorough dose of physic, and injec- 

 tions if necessary. (See staggers in horses, p. 21.) 



BLOODY MURRAIN. 



Cause. — Intelligent men widely differ as to the cause 

 of this disease. It is, however, very certain, that the 

 following are among the most prominent, viz. : bad wa- 

 ter; sudden change of food, from green to dry; feeding 

 in low, damp, cold, meadows and clay lands. In exam- 

 ining cattle that have died from this disease, their liver 

 has been found to be perforated by worms resembling 

 the common leach that is found in some swamp-lands. 



Symptoms. — Loss of appetite ; slight cough ; heaving 

 of the flanks ; dulness of the eyes ; coldness of the horns ; 

 shaking of the head ; partial deafness ; tenderness over 

 the loins ; stupidity; great debility ; running at the eyes 

 and nose ; slight fever ; nauseous breath, and sometimes 

 small eruptions on the skin ; staggering when walking ; 

 constant discharge of green, black, and sometimes bloody 

 matter from the bowels. If not relieved soon, the ani- 

 mal discharges blood and water from the mouth and nos- 

 trils, reels, falls, and dies. 



Remedies. — When the disease first appears, remove 

 the animal from the rest of the stock (as this disorder is 

 contagious) to a cool dry stable. Take 1 lb. Epsom 

 salts, dissolve and give them in warm water. Take 3 pts. 

 blood from the neck; rub well with warm water and 

 vinegar. If the physic Joes not operate, give an injec- 



