CHAPTER XXXII. 



DISEASES PROPER. 



On this subject we borrow our authority chiefly, and shall 

 pass on to those most common to our herds, as they occur on 

 the farms, or among individual animals kept by householders for 

 their own domestic uses. 



"We have consulted several different authorities, both European 

 and American. In causes, and symptoms, they generally agree, 

 but in their cures they frequently differ, sometimes radically; 

 and in the latter, both Allopathic, and Homeopathic remedies 

 are prescribed. Either, or both may be correct, or deficient. 

 We do not pronounce an opinion either way, for we are not a 

 farrier. We leave the adoption of either class of remedies, to 

 the judgment of him who owns and cares for his stock. 



The whole subject of cattle diseases cannot be discussed short 

 of a thorough treatise, which would occupy a number of pages 

 far beyond what has already been written in this volume, and 

 wliich, if attempted, would swell it to inordinate dimensions. 

 To him who wishes to examine the subject to a great extent, 

 we can do no better than refer him to the elaborate pages of 

 Youatt, already mentioned, as perhaps the most competent and 

 complete English authority; or to "Allen's Diseases of Domes- 

 tic Animals," or "Dadd'a American Cattle Doctor," more com- 

 pendious, and perhaps equally good American authorities. We 

 do not propose to quote much from either of them. 



We have in our hands a little English work, entitled " The 

 Modern Farrier," by G. Lowson; printed in London in the year 

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