SECTION II. 



DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The chief attention of the veterinary art has been 

 devoted to diseases of the horse. This has pro- 

 ceeded in a great measure from selfishness on the 

 part of those practising it, being better paid for the 

 treatment of horses than cattle. This department 

 has been hitherto almost entirely practised by farmers, 

 and uneducated country blacksmiths. However, Mr 

 Dick, of Edinburgh, Professor of Veterinary Surgery 

 to the Highland Society, has done much towards in- 

 creasing our knowledge in this most important branch : 

 indeed, none is more so, when we consider so much 

 of the comfort and health of the human race depends 

 upon the quality of that food so much used in almost 

 every country. 



The following judicious remarks are made by Mr 

 Lawrence in his excellent work : — '' It should be 

 considered that animals, living in a state of nature, 

 regulated by the reason and experience of man, 

 would be almost wholly exempt from disease ; that 

 their appetites, like our own, may be held under a 

 constant control ; that their diseases result purely 

 from negligence or erroneous treatment of their 

 owners. They are either too much exposed to the 



