DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



This part of onr work is 

 devoted to the explanation 

 and treatment of the various 

 diseases affecting the ox, to- 

 gether with an account of the 

 diseases incident to milch 

 cows and young calves. 



Cattle diseases are, in many 

 particulars, similar to those 

 of the horse. Thus inflam- 

 mation, irritation and fever, 

 are common to all animals. Still, however, there are many 

 diseases affecting cattle, in which we fail to find a counter- 

 part in any disease attacking horses. Among such diseases 

 we may mention those of contagious typhus, or rinderpest; 

 epizootic aphtha, or the murrain; splenio apoplexy and 

 quarter evil, or the black leg. 



The manner or mode of treating disease in the ox differs 

 no more from that employed in the case of the horse, than 

 one disease differs from another. For it must be remem- 

 bered by every person who undertakes to give medicine to 

 an ox or a cow, that they have four stomachs — 1, the 

 rumen, or paunch; 2, the retiouhmi; 3, the manyplus; 4, 

 the abomaswm. For this reason, or, as it were, peculiarity, 

 cows or oxen should, under every condition, be treated 



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