NEAf CATTLE* 49 



DYSENTERY, DIARRHCEA, OR LOOSE- 

 NESS. 



This is very common among cattle, and weakens them 

 very much. There are many causes operaling to pro- 

 duce this complaint, such as exposure to severe storms, 

 change from dry to green food (especially clover), drink- 

 ing lime-water, pasturing in low, marshy lands in the 

 spring or fall, long fatiguing journeys, over-exertion, eat- 

 ing unripe fruit in large quantities, or poisonous plants, 

 and sometimes from injuries about the abdomen. 



Symjitoms. — It is soon discovered by the dung, or by 

 great efforts to void it, which indicates the first stages of 

 the disease. It ought not to be checked under twelve 

 hours from its commencement, if produced from over- 

 eating green food. As the disease advances, the dis- 

 charge becomes slimy, nauseous, mixed with mucus 

 or the inner lining of the intestines, and often tinged* 

 with blood. The digestive powers do not discharge 

 their functions, as the food passes off only in part 

 digested. If the attack is only slight, it may pass in a 

 short time without medicine, but it is necessary to see 

 that the disease does not become seated, as it will then 

 be more difficult to cure. 



Remedy. — Take 2 qts. of blood from the neck; after 

 which give J lb. Epsom salts, with 1 oz. senna (or 1 oz. 

 caraway-seed steeped 15 minutes), add 1 qt. warm wa- 

 ter, and give in a lukewarm state. If this does not re- 

 lieve the animal within 6 hours, take white-pine bark, 

 white-beach bark, and white-oak bark, make a strong tea, 

 adding 2 qts of new milk, and give blood-warm. Anoth- 

 er : if it is not convenient to bleed, and the disease is vio- 

 lent, take white-pine wood, burn it to a coal, then pound 

 4 oz. fine, add to it \ lb. lard or fresh butter; mix tlie 

 whole with 2 qts. new milk, and give warm, in 4 equal 

 parts, at intervals of 12 hours. Another : take 2 oz. laud- 

 anum, 2 drams ginger, i oz. powdered chalk; dissolve 

 in 1 qt. new milk, and give warm after the animal has 

 fasted 8 hours. 



DIURETICS. 



Diuretics are often productive of good, causing a co- 

 pious flow of urine, calculated to allay or prevent fevers 



