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THE COW- HER DISeASES AND MANAGEMENT. 
generally injurious to health, having only a ten¬ 
dency to weaken the pungency, or strength of the 
material. For this purpose, Indian meal, wheaten 
flour, bean meal, and linseed cake, ground very 
fine, with tumeric powder as a coloring matter, are 
frequently used. The mineral substances employ¬ 
ed are yellow ochre, and it is said chromate of 
lead, in small quantities, in order to give a bright 
yellow to the mustard that has had much colored 
vegetable matter, as linseed meal, added to it. 
)' The powdered mustard of the shops is most fre¬ 
quently adulterated with wheat flour. When this 
is the case, it does not readily make a smooth paste 
with water, but exhibits considerable toughness, 
and a somewhat stringy appearance. The propor¬ 
tions commonly employed by some grocers are— 
common dry salt, wheaten flour, and superfine mus¬ 
tard, equal parts, colored with tumeric, and sharp¬ 
ened with Cayenne pepper. 
THE COW—HER DISEASES AND MANAGEMENT- 
NO. 9. 
Gram Sick. —This disease is caused by improper 
feeding, in allowing the animal too great a quantity 
of grain at one time, particularly those which have 
been subject to the process of distillation. 
The first symptoms are a dull, heavy appearance 
of the eyes of the animal; she frequently shifts 
about from one side to the other, and when she is 
let loose and driven about, she complains or grunts 
more or less. On examination, a fullness may be 
perceived between the hip and ribs, on the opposite 
side to the milking one, if pressed down with the 
hand. This fullness is produced by the extension 
of the stomach. 
Bleeding and purging are believed to be the only 
remedy; the first to relieve the urgent symptoms 
■—the second to remove the cause of the disease. 
The quantity of blood to be taken away may vary 
from three to five pints; after which, the following 
purging drink may be given, milk warm, at one 
dose, in two quarts of water gruel, and half a pint 
of molasses:— 
Sulphur, from 9 oz. to 1 lb.; grains of Paradise 
(cardamoms), 3 drachms; saltpetre, lk oz.; tu¬ 
meric, 4 oz. •, cummin seed, 4 oz. 
When it has fully operated in unloading the 
stomach, the weakness of the organ, the loss of 
appetite that ensues, and the deficiency of milk 
connected with it, will be repaired by medicines of 
an aromatic and bracing nature; like the following 
prescription:— 
. Gentian, cummin, coriander, valerian, and anise 
seed, each, 4 oz.; grains of Paradise, | oz.; flour 
of sulphur, \ \ oz. 
To be mixed, and given at one dose, in a quart 
of mild ale or beer, after having previously boiled 
it with a handful of chopped rue. This should be 
given when warm, and repeated once a-day, or every 
other day, till recovery takes place, which usually 
happens in a few days. 
The regimen should consist of diluent liquors 
and mashes for some days after; and grains are 
entirely to be given up till the stomach gains its 
former strength and tone. They are then to be 
given with caution in order that no relapse may 
ensue. 
Losing of the Cud.-— This malady arises from a i 
relaxed state of the bowels, &>d the accumulation 
of food in the first stomach, which, in not being able 
to be returned by the cow into her mouth, does not 
undergo the secondary process of chewing, so 
essential to the preservation and maintainance of 
health. 
This disease readily yields to the treatment re¬ 
commended in “ Grain Sick,” first by purging, and 
then bracing up by tonics, diluent washes, &c. 
Hydrophobia , or Madness. —This disease arises 
from the bite of a dog, or other animal affected by 
madness, or rabies. Although it is regarded as 
incurable, it is proper to know its symptoms. 
These are a constant lowing and distress of the 
cow, a great flow of froth from the throat and 
tongue, with the breathing somewhat irregular; 
the malady at last breaks out into an ungovernable 
frenzy, or madness, and the loss of power over the 
voluntary muscles extends throughout her whole 
frame, and in four or five days from the commence¬ 
ment of the disease she dies. 
The cow, as well as the hog, the sheep, and the 
horse, does not appear to be able to transmit this 
malady by biting, like the dog, the cat, the wolf, 
and the fox. 
Wounds by Goring , or Pokes. —Cows, when they 
et together in the yard, or elsewhere, are liable to 
e gored by each other in different parts of the 
body, especially if any one of them is wounded, 
and they see or smell the blood. This renders 
them furious, and they fight and poke at each other 
with their horns. 
The treatment of all such wounds is to be con¬ 
ducted, first by endeavoring to stop the effusion of 
blood, either by styptics, by pressure (binding up), 
or else by sutures, or stitching of the part. The 
styptics commonly used consist of 
Oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid), and brandy, each 5 
1 oz.; or common salt and nettles, a handful each. 
To be beaten together in a mortar till it becomes 
a pulp, and then placed on the wound. If not 
sufficient to stop the blood, it may be assisted by 
pressure or a bandage; if it still fails, and should the 
situation admit of it, the lips of the wound, or 
the divided skin, may be brought together with 
crooked needles or pins specially made for the pur¬ 
pose. When this is done, everything is to be left 
for the first twenty-four hours, in order that the 
blood vessels may collapse, and a further effusion 
of blood may be prevented. At the end of that 
time, the wound should be dressed. 
In case the external opening of the wound is 
confined and the gore very deep, a small candle 
should be thinly wound round with flax or tow; 
and after it has been well soaked in the following 
balsam, and dipped in the digestive ointment pre¬ 
scribed below, it may be conveyed into the wound 
and there left:— 
WOUND BALSAM. 
Take compound tincture of myrrh, 4 oz.; cold 
drawn linseed oil, k pint; spirits of turpen¬ 
tine, 4 oz.; and mix well together. 
DIGESTIVE OINTMENT. 
Take common turpentine, 8 oz.; spirits of tur¬ 
pentine, 4 oz.; linseed oil, 2 oz. ; and mix 
i over a slow fire. 
