.DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
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I have thought there appeared a deficiency of courage and 
nervous energy in the animal, compared with the horse, and con¬ 
sequent inability to contend with the disease. From what I 
can see amongst those who profess a great deal of knowledge and 
skill in the maladies of cattle, there is a great want of systematic 
arrangement and description of diseases, with their causes and 
effects. The medical treatment is bad altogether. 
The stimulating cordial hodge-podge compounds that are poured 
down cattle under disease are, in many instances, worse than the 
disease, and often make the case complicated and dangerous; 
when a dose of aloes, or Epsom or Glauber salts, given in the 
first stage of the complaint, would have set all right. 
I have frequently seen bullocks at farm-houses (when I have 
been attending a horse for the owner) that have been a long time 
ill with diseased liver or constipated bowels, and been under the 
treatment of what they call a skilful cowleech, who has at length 
given them up as incurable, and the animal has been, com¬ 
paratively speaking, wasted to skin and bone. I have, now and 
then, asked the farmer to allow me to undertake the case. 
I have given calomel, aloes, and sulphate of soda. 
I have brought the liver into action by repeating my doses at 
intervals, and keeping the animal upon bran mashes and linseed ; 
and he has recovered, returned to his work, and afterwards grazed 
and fatted as well as any other beast. Yet those very men for 
whom I have done those things, when they have fresh cases, send 
for the cowleech in preference to me. 
I recollect one of these skilful cowleeches, who threw down a 
cow to ascertain where she was lame, when the moment I stood 
behind her I could see that the tuberosity of the ilium was broken; 
and yet this man of forty years’ practical experience could not 
see it. 
ON SOME -DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
By Mr. Thomas Browne, V.S ., Hinckley. 
Dropping after calving is very common here, and is con¬ 
sidered of late years to have much increased : the cause I think 
is evident, and the prevention is much easier than the cure. The 
cow which is getting forward for calving should be kept in a 
short pasture, and when ready to calve removed to a cool place far 
from heat and water. Cows in high condition are certainly most 
liable to this disease; and too high condition is by many well- 
informed breeders considered to be the only cause. Milking 
them before calving is another preventive; but as regards the 
cure, I have not any thing new to offer, practitioners differing in 
their treatment, and all being equally unsuccessful. 
