PALSY IN CATTLE. 
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go quite so far as Mr. Knowles, who gives in one dose four 
ounces of mithridate, two of grains of Paradise, two of flour of 
mustard, two of turmeric, a quart of ale, and half a pound of 
treacle, and all this “ in order to bring heat into the small pores, 
and give motion to the whole of the bloodvessels.” 
Palsy of the Sphincters .— One caution, however, I would give 
you. I have spoken of constipation being the usual accompani- 
ment of palsy, and the removal of that constipation the signal 
of the commencement of recovery : if, however, at the first 
attack, or during the progress of the disease, the sphincter of the 
rectum or the bladder should become paralyzed, and the feces or 
the urine, or both, should be discharged involuntarily, the 
chances of recovery will be so materially lessened, that it will 
become your duty to advise your employer to have the patient 
slaughtered without delay, and while her carcass may be of any 
value. 
You will cause a sufficient quantity of warm gruel to be fre- 
quently offered to your patient, and to be forced upon her if she 
will not voluntarily drink it. Yoii will likewise cause injections 
of warm gruel to be frequently administered, in each of which 
a few ounces of Epsom salts have been dissolved, and to which 
a little ginger has been added. They may be useful, but 
from the peculiar construction of the lower and larger intestines 
in cattle, they cannot be so generally or so extensively service- 
able as in the horse. 
Aperients ( continued ). — Well, gentlemen, you have bled, and you 
have physicked, and you are continuing to stimulate the mucous 
coat of the intestines by the exhibition of sulphur, combined 
with an aromatic. You will do this with much propriety during 
the whole course of the disease ; you will possibly promote the 
absorption of any effused fluid either in the cerebral or spinal mass ; 
and you will keep up a gentle and manageable counter-irritation, 
which cannot fail of being, to a certain degree, useful ; and the ac- 
tion which you are exciting and keeping up in the muscular fibre 
of the intestines and absorbents, may contribute to or prepare the 
way for the return of healthy action to other parts. Sulphur in 
cattle is like castor oil in the human being, its employment will 
generally be beneficial, and rarely and almost never prejudicial. 
Derivatives. — Palsy in cattle is in many instances con- 
nected with, or consequent on, or still essentially identified with 
rheumatism. This indicates a course of treatment which I cannot 
say would be altogether useless, but which would be much less 
efficient in the horse. Can we stimulate extensively and safely 
any other tissue or system ? The integumental at once presents 
itself: it is extensive enough, and a sympathy seems to exist 
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