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SCOURING IN CATTLE AND SHEEP. 
satisfactorily to myself if the competitors had been called upon 
to state the proximate, predisposing, and exciting, &c. causes. 
That not being required by the advertisement, I shall proceed as 
though I was called in to attend a cow or sheep with the above 
disease. 
First, I will treat of the cow : — Take gum arabic two ounces, 
and dissolve it in a quart of strong decoction of wormwood ; add 
one ounce of aromatic confection, and two drachms of gum 
catechu. Give this astringent drench in linseed tea, and repeat 
it every sixth day for three times. 
After the second dose, if the cow gets no better, add two scru- 
ples of powdered opium, and from one to four drachms of pre- 
pared chalk, which l have known to have a good effect. After 
the first or second dose of the astringent drench, a judicious dose 
of calomel, conjoined with opium — say from ten grains of calomel 
to forty, and opium from ten grains to sixty, and in desperate 
cases from ninety and even one hundred and twenty of the 
latter drug. 
Sheep should have the same mixture prepared for them, and 
have a tea-spoonful given them as often as may be required. 
The cow should be housed, and kept as much as possible on 
straw ; and the sheep’s pasture should be changed to a high and 
dry situation. 
I have known these medicines succeed in curing numberless 
cases in my own practice, when all other means have failed. 
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, 
Your’s obediently, 
Richard Rawlings, Senior, V.S. 
Nov. 30tli, 1836. 
N.B. — The premium of three sovereigns was awarded to me ; 
and since publicity has been given to the above remedies, one of 
the members of the society has had his flock affected with what he 
terms the scour, and lost fifty-five before he had recourse to the 
medicine (conceiving in his own mind there was no sure, having 
tried every thing, as he thought). He tried the above remedy, 
which cured all the rest. 
VESICULAR CALCULUS IN A RAT. 
Communicated by Mr. Hughes, of Shrewsbury. 
Herewith I have sent you at least a novel case, and one that 
I hope you will find worthy of insertion in your “ Veteri- 
narian.” 
