i68 CATTLE. 



Prevention. — Calves should be taken away directly they are 

 dropped, unless it is intended that the cow shall bring them up. 

 Avoid exposing fresh-calved animals to inclement weather. 



OBSTRUCTED TEATS. 



This condition and its treatment are described under Down- 

 fall OF THE Udder. (Page 155.) 



PALSY OR PARALYSIS* 



Besides the paralysis of milk fever [see Milk Fever, 

 page 167) there are instances in which palsy comes on without 

 known cause. After death it is discovered that some splinter 

 or bone, or other substance, has been pressing on the brain. 

 In other cases debility alone accounts for partial paralysis. 



Treatment. — Nourishing food, small doses of nux-vomica in 

 gruel. Daily stimulation of the spine with Elliman's. 



PARTURIENT APOPLEXY, (See MILK FEVER p, \61.) 



RABIES. 



Cattle bitten by rabid dogs show much the same symptoms 

 as other animals, namely, biting the seat of the wound and an 

 unwonted disposition to destroy fences and mangers, &c., &c. 



Cause. — It is now ascertained that rabies is never spon- 

 taneous, and can only be brought about by inoculation from 

 another animal already mad. 



Treatment is out of the question and the only thing to guard 

 against is mistaking the mania of milk madness for hydrophobia, 

 as the symptoms greatly resemble one another. A veterinary 

 surgeon should of course be consulted, but on a station where 

 expert advice cannot be had, time will prove if it be rabies, as 



