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absorption, and produce serious illness, or even death. The 

 animals become dull, they cease to ruminate ; frothy saliva 

 drops copiously from the mouth ; they moan, and move rest- 

 lessly ; strike at their flanks, and are tormented with violent 

 and often bloody purging. After death, traces of active inflam- 

 mation appear in the intestines, and in the rumen, honey- 

 comb, and abomasum. In this case, the remedy will consist 

 of the white of a number of eggs beaten up, and mixed with 

 a little gruel : this mixture must be gently poured down the 

 gullet, and repeated every hour till the symptoms abate ; 

 aperients may afterwards be administered, and copious injec- 

 tions of gruel. Too often, however, all remedies prove use- 

 less ; frequently there is no time to have recourse to them. 



We may now pass on to a consideration of some of the 

 more local and external diseases, or injuries to which cattle 

 are subject, the treatment of which, by the ignorant cow- 

 leech, often produces irreparable mischief. 



There are two diseases to which the horse is subject, but, 

 as there is reason to believe, not the cow : we mean glanders 

 and farcy : at least no well-authenticated cases are on record. 

 One of the symptoms of farcy in the horse, is inflammation 

 and thickening of the absorbents, especially at the valves ; 

 the absorbents have a corded feel, and at greater or less dis- 

 tances along their course, where the valves are situated, small 

 tumours or buttons arise, arresting the current of the fluid 

 contained. Farcy is a highly contagious disease, and often 

 accompanies glanders ; but though true contagious farcy 

 either does not occur or very rarely occurs in the ox, inflam- 

 mation of the absorbents is not uncommon. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE ABSORBENT VESSELS OF THE SKIN. 



As in farcy the absorbents are corded and show buttons at 

 the valves along their course, these buttons become hard and 

 scirrhous, and some suppurate, and degenerate into ulcers. 

 This disease may be more or less extensive, and may result 

 from various causes, as from wounds rendered foul and 

 irritable by improper dressings, from diseased hoofs, or ulcers 

 of some of the joints of the limbs. The absorbents running 

 from these wounds or ulcers become irritated and inflamed, 

 and the whole system sympathizes. As soon as the ulcers 

 heal, the active inflammation of the absorbents subsides, 

 though a thickening or cording of their tissue may remain 

 for a considerable period. During the sta^e of inflammation 



