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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
2 drachms, 
1^ ounce, 
\ ounce, 
\ ounce, 
1 pint. 
quantity of urine at a time, and frequently none at all 
The following must be administered until the complaint is 
removed :— 
Camphor, powdered 
Nitre 
Spirit of nitrous aether 
Laudanum 
Oatmeal-gruel, warm . 
When strangury is accompanied by costiveness, which is 
frequently the case, immediate recourse should be had to 
laxatives. A pound of Epsom salts, dissolved in half-a- 
gallon of warm gruel, may be given ; and the discharge 
assisted by administering clysters at the same time, consist¬ 
ing of four ounces of lintseed-oil, and a quart of thin warm 
gruel, with half-an-ounce of salt of tartar to make them in¬ 
corporate. If an evacuation does not speedily take place, 
the clyster must be repeated in half-an-hour afterwards, 
and continue every twenty minutes, until it has the desired 
effect. 
It will be injudicious to feed a cow too much, previous to 
calving, as in that event they may be attacked with what 
is termed the milk-fever, or, in other words, inflammation in 
the womb. If it is found that cows have too great a ten¬ 
dency to fatten previous to calving, they must be removed 
to a less nutritious pasture, or stinted in their diet, which 
is much more safe than reducing them by the aid of medi¬ 
cine. But if they cannot be easily reduced, and the time of 
parturition be close at hand, then it will be necessary to 
have recourse to bleeding. 
ABORTION. 
Cows are very liable to abortion, or, as it has been termed, 
slipping their calf, in the earlier stages of gestation. A 
