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three days, give steel beer, milk warm, a pint twice 

 a day for aweek, and good keep. One gallon good 

 beef) three or four ounces iron filings, infuse in a 

 stone bottle corked up three or four days; shake 

 daily. Hard labour during great heats was said 

 by the old writers to produce the Gall or Overflow 

 of the Gall, which often terminates in the yellows." 



Diarrhaa, Looseness, Slimy Flux j or Scouring 



Rot. 



This disorder consists in a frequent discharge of 

 dung, of an unusual color, thin and slimy. — The an- 

 imal gradually looses flesh, but continues for some 

 time to feed well and ruminate. At length the ex- 

 crements become of a darker color, and frothy, 

 and in the latter stages have the appearance of 

 half-chewed food, the digestive power being en- 

 tirely lost. It is said that when animals have been 

 loner affected with this disease, they feel a orreat de- 

 gree of pain and distress when grasped on each 

 side of the backbone, just below the shoulders; 

 and this is sometimes considered, by dealers in cat- 

 tle, as a mark of a beast's being tainted with the 

 scourinsr rot. 



The fatal symtoms are the dew-lap hanging down 

 and having a flabby appearance; the dung running 

 off, with a putrid and offensive smell, and as it falls 

 to the ground, rising up in bubbles; the hair all 

 over the body appearing pinfeathered, or erect, as 

 if the animal was enduring a severe cold. 



The causes of this complaint are exposure to 

 cold and rain, particularly when the animal has 

 been over driven or heated by working immediate- 

 ly before such exposure. Drinking plentifully ot 

 water, under similar pjrr-umsi^ances, will also pro- 



