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gatives of Epsom salts, in six-ounce doses, with ginger, aided 

 by copious injections. If there be no spasmodic pain, and 

 the usual symptoms of jaundice only appear, aperients, 

 mashes, and low diet may be successful. Some practitioners 

 recommend aloes, Barbadoes soap, and Venice turpentine ; 

 but simple aperients are more safe, and quite as efficacious. 

 Should the liver be swollen and tender, blisters, setons, and 

 perhaps even calomel (though it should never be rashly ad- 

 ministered), may be requisite. After all, jaundice is not one 

 of the most tractable of diseases, and when once confirmed will 

 often bid defiance to the efforts of the most skilful veteri- 

 narian. All nostrums in this disease (and many there are in 

 vogue among the ignorant), as saffron, &c., are either abso- 

 lutely inert or injurious. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE SPLEEN OR MILT. 



The symptoms of this disease are obscure ; seldom perhaps 

 is the spleen affected, independently of other organs, as the 

 heart, lungs, and liver. Yet pure inflammation and disorgan- 

 ization of the spleen occasionally occurs ; but all our know- 

 ledge of this affection is derived from the authority of others. 

 Professor Volpi, clinical lecturer at the Veterinary College, 

 Milan, in a work published in 1813, says, that " cattle are 

 subject to a very acute kind of inflammation of the spleen, 

 which generally destroys them in three or four days ; it is 

 not, however, of a contagious nature, for it does not attack 

 any other species of animals, nor can it be attributed to 

 marsh miasmata (the surgeon will remember the affection of 

 the spleen connected with ague in the human patient), 

 because it sometimes happens in very dry situations. We 

 generally subdue this formidable disease by free and repeated 

 bleedings, by giving nitre in a quantity of from two to four 

 ounces a day, to which we may add two ounces of aloes, and 

 six ounces of Glauber salts." 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN, PHRENSY, MAD STAGGERS OR SOUGH 

 (PHRENITIS), AND APOPLEXY 



Inflammation of the brain is a common disease in cattle, 

 resulting from plethora, high feeding, over-driving, ill-usage ; 

 it occurs most generally in sultry weather, and in animals 

 which have fed upon a stimulating diet. The beast at the 

 commencement of the disease is dull, it hangs down its head 

 and seems oppressed with stupor, the action of the heart is 



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