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frequent occurrence with cows when accumulating flesli 

 fast, and also among cows, denominated buUers. Some- 

 times, however, it may be due to tumors, or dropsy in the 

 womb or ovaries. 



Treatmerd. If from ovarian disease, spay the cow, and 

 in simple cases elevate the hind parts of the cow, by 

 making the stall lower at front and higher behind, placing 

 a pad on the parts, after the manner described, under the 

 article Falling of the Womh. 



Prolapsus Vesicoe. — (See Bladder, Diseases of the.) 



Prurigo Vemalis. — This is a disease peculiar to the 

 Spring of the year, and characterized by extreme itchiness 

 — the body being covered with inflammatory spots, which 

 discharge pus, and form scabs that fall off and leave the 

 parts bald, or without hair. 



Treatment. Give a dose of epsom salts, and fumigate the 

 beast with sulphurous acid gas. (See Sulphurous Acid 

 Gas, in article on Horse and Cattle Medicines.) Give 

 good feeding and good shelter. 



Puerpural Fever. — (See Milk Fever.) 

 Quarter Evil. — (See Black Leg.) 



Railway Disease of Cattle. — The summer of 186V 

 showed very clearly the existence of a disease developed by 

 the transportation of cattle to the markets of New York 

 and other cities from the saline plains and pastures of the 

 West. For the want of a better name, we have designated 

 it as above, not being satisfied of its identity with that 

 disease commonly called "Texan Fever;" because the 

 cattle of Texas and of the Cherokee nation are not known 

 to be ever sick from Texan or other diseases, except from 



