HOOSE. 
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also owing to the animal accidentally swallowing some un¬ 
wholesome substance in its food, which, resisting the powers 
of mastication, remains unaltered in the stomach, and occa¬ 
sions that peculiar affection called hoosing. Feathers and 
other indigestible substances taken into the stomach pro¬ 
duce this disease. The sound emitted, like shortness of 
breath, while labouring under this complaint, is occasioned 
by the animal making vain attempts to dislodge the in¬ 
digestible substance from its stomach. 
Remedies. —With the complicated structure of the sto¬ 
machs of cattle, the removal of any extraneous substance is 
very difficult. If the substance be a hard one, should it 
even pass into that stomach called the manyfolds , which is 
adapted for triturating the food, it is not likely that it will 
be expelled ; and being lodged there, would be certain to 
produce inflammation, and lay the foundation of an incur¬ 
able disease. 
Hoosing may be produced by a sudden change of air or 
temperature, causing a glutinous phlegm to lodge in the 
lungs, which will impede the respiration, and consequently 
induce shortness of breath and irritation, and hoosing will 
follow; the animal will not be able to throw off the accumu¬ 
lation of matter which will be generated in the lungs, with¬ 
out a violent exertion. When such is supposed to be the 
case, and when it is known that the animal has indulged in 
too large a repast of clover, or other succulent herbage ; let 
a pint of castor-oil be administered, which will generally 
afford relief; but if the cause be inflammation of the lungs, 
then bleeding will be found absolutely necessary, in the first 
instance, and two quarts may be taken ; and six hours 
afterwards the following medicine should be repeated every 
six hours, until the disease is subdued 
