vill CONTENTS 



IV. Of Febrile Diseases . . . . . .467 



Splenic Apoplexy — Anthrax — Symptoms and Post-Mortem Ap- 

 pearances of Anthrax — Procedure — Disposal of Carcases — 

 Cleansing and Disinfection — " Black Leg," " Black Quarter,'* 

 Parturient Apoplexy, or Milk Fever. 



V. Diseases, Etc., of the External Parts of Cattle . 479 



Scurf; Scab — Cow-Pox — The Fouls — The Gad-Fly, Wurbles, 

 or Wormals — Lice — Strains and Bruises — Wounds. 



VL Of Gestation, Parturition, Etc. .... 492 



Gestation — Swelling of the Udder — Diseases of the Mammary 

 Gland or Udder ; Physiological Congestion or Engorgement 

 of the Mammae; Mammitis, or Mastitis; Catarrhal Mammitis; 

 Interstitial or Parenchymatous Mammitis — Agalactia — Ul- 

 cerated Teats ; Chaps — Abortion — Falling Down of the Calf 

 Bed — Parturition, or Calving — Rearing of Calves — Denti- 

 tion of Cattle. 



VII. Management and Feeding, Etc., of Cattle • . 516 



Cow-Houses — The Feeding Cow-House. 



VIII. The Various Breeds of Horned Cattle . . .521 



The Short-Horned, or Holstein Breed — The Kyloes, or High- 

 land Cattle — The Long-Horned Cattle — The Galloway Breed 

 — Milch Cows — Tuberculosis. 



SECTION III 



DISEASES OF SHEEP 



Introduction ....,,,. 531 



I. Diseases of the Head, Etc. . . . e .533 



Staggers — Blindness— Catarrh. 



II, Diseases of the Chest . . . . . .538 



Fluke, or Liver Rot — Inflammation of the Lungs — Grass-Ill — 

 Milk-Ill — Jaundice, or Yellows. 



III. Diseases of the Abdomen . . . . .542 



The Resp, or Red Water— The Red Wkter Blibes— The Braxy, 

 or Sickness — Diarrhoea, or Looseness — Dysentery — Colic — 

 Finding. 



IV. Diseases of the External Parts, Etc. . . . 549 



Scab, or Itch — Pelt-Rot — Er)^sipelas, or Wild-Fire — Cramp of 

 the Legs, or Wood-Evil — Leg-Evil — Foot-Rot — Vermin — 

 Wounds — Fractures — Of Bleeding — On the Age of Sheep as 

 indicated by the Teeth. 



V. Gestation, Parturition, Etc. . . . . .565 



The Ram — Leaping — The Ewe — Lambing — Weaning Lambs — 

 Castrating Lambs — Inflamed Udder, Etc. 



