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If the cow be unable to swallow, a ball may answer better. It should ha 
well oiled and pushed far back iuto the gullet. Active purges are always an 
advantage, and injections of soap and warm water may be used frequently 
when swallowing is impossible. 
To relieve a heated head, cold water may be used. Carbonate of ammonia 
given as a ball may relieve swelling of the bowels. "When the attack comc3 
n, the following formula may be used as a laxative and sedative. 
1 Drachm calomel; 
2 Oz. laudanum, 
1 Lb. castor oil. 
Mix with hot water and molasses, and give in four doses at intervals of 
four hours. 
For the exhaustion following the more acute stages of the disease, the fob 
lowing is highly commended : 
1 Oz. spirits of turpentine, 
J Oz. carbonate of ammonia. 
To be given in a quart of cold gruel. 
Mammitis. 
This disease is known as caked -bag, or garget, and is sometimes erroneously 
called milk fever. It is a disease of rare occurrence in the mare, but is com- 
monly met with in cattle and sheep. 
Definition . — It consists in acute inflammation of the whole or part of tho 
mammary gland (udder). 
Causes. — These are numerous; sometimes it is the result of external injury, 
such as blows of any description. Another common source of this disease is 
the cruel practice of “over stocking,” which consists in the preparation of the 
flow for show or market, by allowing her to go unmilked until the udder 
becomes enormously distended with milk. This is done to give the gland a 
fine appearance. Cows giving no milk, when being fattened for the butcher, 
Eometirnes undergo a modified form of this disease; this is caused by some of 
the milk remaining in the gland and acting as an irritant. 
Symptoms . — This disease seldom attacks the whole gland, but is usually con- 
fined to one or two quarters. The affected parts become hot, hard, swollen, 
tender, and red ; the milk is curdled and whey-like, and usually mixed with 
blood. The constitutional symptoms depend upon the severity of the attack, 
the disease being often ushered in with rigors (trembling), followed by increased 
heat of the skin ; the bowels are usually costive, but are sometimes unnaturally 
loose. The muzzle more or less dry, appetite slightly impaired, pulse quickened, 
together with general fever. 
Treatment . — The first thing is to determine the cause, which must be at once 
removed. If the bowels are costive, x brisk purgative must be given — sucli as 
