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CATTLE, THEIB DISEASES. 
astringent applications. In cleansing, a syringe may be needed, using a 
solution of carbolic acid. Cloths saturated with the solution should be pressed 
into the opening and bound there. A clean stable, or a dry pasture ground 
are essential. For a wash, use: 
Carbolic acid, one drachm. 
Water, blx ounces. 
For an ointment, use : 
Oil of turpentine, four ounces | 
Lard, four ounces ; 
Powdered sulphate of copper, one ounc& 
Horn- Ail, or Hollow Horn. 
What is popularly known by these names is not a disease originating in the 
horns or located there. A peculiar coldness of the horns is one of its symp- 
toms, but the cause of the disease is a degenerated condition of the blood, 
resulting from other diseases, or from exposure, foul air, unclean stables, poor 
food, bad water, etc. Uniformity of food may produce these ill conditions. 
General debility, loss of flesh, rough, lousy hide, loose or constipated bowels, 
Whiteness of tongue and cold horns are the usual symptoms. 
All local treatment of the horns is worthless. Good food, cleanly and 
comfortable housing and treatment for vermin if they be present are the first 
requisites. Cleansing the bowels and tonic treatment are then^ in order. 
Use for one week daily in dry food, the following: 
Sulphate of iron, two drachms ; 
Powdered nux vomica, one drachm* 
Powdered gentian, one ounce. 
Choking. 
For detailed directions for determining and treating this dangerous diffi- 
culty, see under Horses, pages 474-476. 
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, etc. 
The symptoms of these disorders are so fully understood as scarcely to need 
description. Reference may be made, however, to the full discussion cover- 
ing both horses and cattle given in Chapter- VI., Diseases of Horses, pages 
362-364. See Recipes, No. 67, 69, page 790, and “Astringents,” page 502, 
Cow-Pox. 
This disorder is akin to small-pox in man, though it is far less to be 
dreaded. It sometimes appears without discoverable cause, but inoculation or 
contact with the disease is regarded as essential to its propagation. It begins 
with slight fever ; pimples then appear on the teats, udder and belly ; the 
milk diminishes, the cow droops and its appetite fails. It is not uncommon 
for several crops of pustules to form, break, and dry up. The sick animal 
should be isolated and subjected to a mild, sedative treatment, keeping the 
