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temperature, sudden chills as a result of warm days 

 and cold nights, sleeping on damp pastures, cold dewy 

 nights, fast driving after idleness, intense heat. It 

 may also proceed from blows or injuries of various 

 kinds. 



Remedies. — Bleeding is seldom beneficial, and 

 more benefit will be derived by producing a drain 

 upon the portal circulation by changing the diet and 

 administering saline purgatives and counter-irritants. 

 With these objects in view, administer the following : — 



Soda sulphate (glauber salts) . . . . i pound, 

 Sodium chloride (common salt) . . . | pound, 



follow this up by the application of a blister over the 

 region of the liver, and if the animal continues in- 

 disposed send for the veterinary surgeon. 



FOG-SICKNESS, OR HOVEN. 



Cause. — This unpleasant, and frequently trouble- 

 some malady, is sometimes caused by cattle being- 

 removed from house or yard-feeding to rich pastures 

 of meadow-grass or young clover, on which they feed 

 so voraciously, that the stomach being overloaded 

 with succulent food, fermentation takes place, gases 

 are generated, which descending into the bowels, 

 produce a general swelling of the belly. The cause is 

 the animal taking in too great a quantity at once, 

 without performing the necessary act of chewing the 

 cud, by which the food is reduced into a more liquid 

 consistence, and prepared for its passage from the 

 paunch into the other stomachs. It not unfrequently 

 happens that the stomach is so distended with food 

 and gas that unless immediate relief be given, the 

 animal will die from paralysis of the nerves of 

 respiration and circulation. It must be obvious that 



