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and put to dry food, which treatment, in the earlier 

 stages of the disorder, will, genercdly, effect a cure. 

 Should this, however, fail, it is advised, in that work, 

 to boil a pound of mutton suet in three quarts of 

 milk, till the former is dissolved, and give it to the 

 beast in a luke warm state; or, in obstinate cases, 

 to boil half a pound of powdered chalk in two quarts 

 of water, till it is reduced to three pints; add four 

 ounces of hartshorn shavings and of cassia, and 

 stir Ihe whole together. When cold add a pint of 

 lime water and two drachms of the tincture of opi- 

 um; keep the whole in a corked bottle, and, after 

 shaking it before using, give one or two hornsful, 

 two or three times a day, as the nature of the case 

 may require. 



Red Water or Bloody Urine. 



In this disorder the urine appears as if it were 

 mixed >vith blood. As the disease advances, the 

 urine becomes of a darker color, and at length re- 

 sembles foul coffee; the animal looses stren^h rap- 

 idly, and sinks under the disorder. Cattle attack- 

 ed by this disease seldom live beyond the tenth or 

 twelfth day, unless it is put a stop to by proper reme- 

 dies. Il is generally attended with costiveness; and 

 if this is not the case at first, it almost always hap- 

 pens in the course of the disorder, unless preven- 

 ted by laxative medicine. It is caused by weak re- 

 laxed vessels; thin blood; cold; change from a poor 

 to a rich pasture; scarcity of water in a long and 

 dry summer; blows acrpss the loins; some animals 

 appear to have the disease hereditary. 



Dr. White recommends, in the first place the fol- 

 lowing mild laxitive: 



Epsom salts [sulphate of magnesia] 



or common salt 4 to 6 oz 



