REDWATER IN CATTLE. 
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seems to be now more the effect of habit than design. The saliva 
is less abundant, and she has swallowed a little bran water. The 
setons are very painful, and begin to discharge. Continue the 
white mustard, the same quantity, but at two doses. Continue 
also the friction and the injections. 
6tli day .—The setons suppurate; the head is carried well; 
she walks almost as usual; she has a little appetite; the eyes, 
although swelled, are clear; the respiration is easy, and the skin 
feels moist. Repeat the gargle, the mustard, the injections, and 
clothe her well. 
7th day .—She eats well. Chaff of hay and straw was given 
in small quantities, and she was walked about for some minutes. 
She lies down in her usual manner, and her walk is firm. Omit 
the medicine; continue the injections. 
8 th and 9th days .—Suppuration from the setons abundant. 
Convalescent. Give unmixed hay. 
_ Recueil, Jan. 1834. 
The sudden rousing of the energies of the frame by the admi¬ 
nistration of the mustard is a valuable fact, whatever we may 
think of the previous treatment of the case.— Edit. 
REDWATER IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. G. Dawson, South Queen's Terry , N. B . 
As facts are always better than theories, and often explain 
what theory cannot solve, I send the following, as I think there 
are some points relating to redwater which are not yet cleared up. 
The disease is very rare in this part of the country, but there is 
a field belonging to Lord Roseberry, in Dalmaney Park, kept in 
pasture for the cows, and which has probably lain in grass for 
60 or 70 years, in which the disease occasionally appears. There 
is a great deal of rank coarse grass in the field. The cows which 
have been bred on the farm are never affected with redwater, 
but almost every cow which is bought in and put on this field, is 
attacked with it in about from three to five weeks after she is 
brought to the place. 
The disease has evidently an inflammatory tendency in their 
case, and requires copious bleeding, even to faintness, and that 
must sometimes be repeated. The bowels must be opened, and 
kept so, which I endeavour to do by giving, first, five drachms of 
aloes, and about a pound of sulphate of magnesia or muriate of 
soda; and on the following days, linseed oil Jfej, mur. soda Ibss, 
night and morning, and also clysters; and at noon, nitre 3ij, 
tartar emetic 3ij, which treatment is almost always successful. 
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