INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER IN A COW. 
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wa^^s terminate in suppuration. I have already described the 
symptoms which indicate the approach of this result. In this case, 
and if the animal is in the stable, the measures already recommended 
must be continued, or a decoction of linseed meal and white poppies 
must be prepared, and kept in contact with the part by means of 
the suspensory contrivance. 
If the cow is at pasture, ointments, such as the unguentum po~ 
puleum* must be employed. 
The collection of purulent matter being certainly recognized, it 
must be opened by means of a bistoury, and the emollient applica¬ 
tions continued until the disappearance of the inflammatory phe¬ 
nomena. The cyst or reservoir which contained the purulent mat¬ 
ter should be washed with a decoction of marsh-mallow roots, and 
later, when the irritation is somewhat subdued, light discutients, 
as warm red wine, or tincture of aloes, somewhat lowered with 
water, may be resorted to. 
When the mucous surfaces of the excretory canals participate 
in the inflammation, the same means are indicated. The veterinary 
surgeon should most particularly take care that no pus is permitted 
to remain in these ducts. A gentle pressure of them should occa¬ 
sionally be resorted to, avoiding as much as possible giving pain 
to the patient. 
If the swelling of the teats threatens to terminate in induration 
after the employment of the antiphlogistic treatment, general and 
local, which has been recommended, and the inflammatory pheno¬ 
mena have lost much of their character, recourse must be had to 
resolvents. The camphorated ammoniacal liniment—the mixture 
of equal parts of the unguentum populeum and the mercurial oint¬ 
ment of double strength, and the ointment of hydriodate of potash, 
are the means to which I have generally had recourse with success. 
The most fatal termination being that by gangrene, the attention 
of the veterinary surgeon should be most anxiously employed in 
endeavouring to arrest its progress. For that he will employ the 
antiphlogistic remedies already recommended. Scariflcations and 
cauterization are excellent means, but they do not always succeed. 
If the areolar circle is formed, the separation of the eschar may be 
facilitated by means of emollient cataplasms and the unguentum 
populeum. 
The fall of the eschar having taken place, the subjacent mam¬ 
millary gland is exposed, and almost always found to be sphacelated. 
* This is an ointment very much in request among the French practitioners, 
as an emollient and anodyne. It is composed of six parts of the dried buds 
of the black poplar or fifteen of the green poplar, two parts each of the fresh 
leaves of the poppy, henbane, burdock, and belladonna, ten of the black 
nightshade, and thirty-six parts of lard. 
