ON CATARRH IN THE DOG. 
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from them hour after hour; the cow-house has been heated 
many a degree above the surrounding' air; but this has been 
neglected and scarcely observed, because the faeces of this animal 
have no offensive smell, and the urine is comparatively devoid of 
ammonia. The cows are then let out for an hour or two to grass, 
or to water, when they inevitably take cold. 
The negligence of the oicner. —I know not any disease by 
which cattle are so seriously injured, or which is eventually so 
fatal to them, as hoose or cough, yet neither the herdsman nor 
the owner pays any attention to it. The animal may cough 
from week to week, and no one takes notice of it, until the quan¬ 
tity of milk is seriously decreasing or the cow rapidly losing 
flesh, and then, medical treatment will generally be unavailing. 
The disease has reached the chest, the lungs are seriously affect¬ 
ed, and the foundation is laid for confirmed hoose or phthisis. 
Hoose often caught at straw yard, —Many a sad and, eventually, 
fatal cold is taken at straw-yard, and particularly by young cat¬ 
tle. The food is scanty—not sufficient to afford proper nourish¬ 
ment, or to keep up the natural warmth ; and the more forward 
drive the others about, and scarcely permit them to obtain a 
fourth part of their share. The depressing effects of cold and 
wet, and hunger and fear, so debilitate these poor beasts, that 
the slightest catarrh fastens upon them, and produces serious and 
often irremediable pulmonary affection. 
Treatment, —Youshould bleed in catarrh,if there is the slightest 
degree of fever. You should remember the inflammatory cha¬ 
racter which almost every complaint speedily assumes in these 
animals, and the uniform violence of the fever if it is once suf¬ 
fered to get head. The horse is rarely subject to any disease, 
that in the speed with which it runs its course, and its fre¬ 
quent fatality, bears the slightest resemblance to the inflamma¬ 
tory fever of cattle. 
Having bled, you would certainly physic, for you have an ape¬ 
rient which, although comparatively inert in the horse, is certain 
and mild and safe in its operation on cattle ; I mean the Epsom 
salts. The medium dose is a pound. Fever medicine should 
follow the action of the purgative, composed of the same drugs, 
but administered in half the quantity; and to this should be 
added warmth, warm mashes, warm drinks, warm gruels, and a 
warm but well-ventilated cow-house. 
Catarrh in the Dog. 
Dogs, and especially those that are petted, are subject to fre¬ 
quent cough and catarrh. The disease assumes, according to 
circumstances, two very different forms, requiring a material dif- 
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