400 
ON BRONCHITIS IN CATTLE. 
is immediately removed by the operation; the animal breathinf^* 
afterwards comparatively easy. 
There were now five other calves left, nearly of the same ao-e, 
and which had been running out along with the others ever since 
they were weaned: these were labouring under the same affec¬ 
tion. Finding the medical treatment adopted in the last case 
did not succeed, I determined upon giving the turpentine a fair 
trial; for which purpose I combined some ol. terebinthinae with 
oleum commune; but the farmer felt so prejudiced against using 
any strong medicines, that he would not give it, for he had not 
only administered, before he applied to me, tar balls, but the 
strong remedies recommended by Clater, under the effects of 
which the calves were fast sinking. I therefore advised him to 
try a remedy my father used to employ with success, consisting 
of half a pint of lime-water every morning to each calf, and a 
table-spoonful of common salt, dissolved in half a pint of water, 
every afternoon, keeping them out at grass, and varying their 
pasture from time to time. This plan of treatment was regularly 
pursued for some time, and succeeded ; the remaining calves 
were soon in perfect health, and suffered very little in their growth; 
in fact, a stranger not knowing the circumstance would not sup¬ 
pose they had laboured under any disease. Where lime-water 
cannot be procured conveniently, I would recommend half a 
drachm of aqua kali pur. in half a pint of linseed tea as a sub¬ 
stitute. Common salt is a valuable medicine, either as a pre¬ 
ventive to the development of worms, or as a specific against 
some of the species, as the fluke-worm, &c.: it is particularly 
obnoxious to them either in or out of the body. 
There is little doubt that it must be transmitted along the ab¬ 
sorbents, and pass through the secerning vessels with the proxi¬ 
mate elements of which it is composed, in as intimate a union as 
when taken into the stomach; for it is a well-known fact, that 
bodies taken into that vise us will become absorbed into the cir¬ 
culation, and pass apparently unaltered through the secerning 
vessels of some of the glands of the body. If the secretions 
formed by the mucous membrane of the bronchi become impreg¬ 
nated with the muriate of soda, it would render the worms sickly, 
and occasion them to quit their hold, in consequence of which 
they would be easily expelled through the larynx and mouth. 
Some individuals are in the habit of giving a table-spoonful 
of powdered savin in half a pint of milk, daily, with tolerable 
success. Others dress the inside of the nostrils with oil of savin, 
and administer a small portion of the same daily, diluted with 
vinegar. An old cowleech told me he was always successful 
with the oil of savin. Some extol asafoetida rubbed down with 
