ABORTIONING CATTLE. 
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Camphor with opium according to Ilartmann, and ferrum 
sulphuric according to Johne (Saxon Yearly Report, 1872, page 
134), have afforded satisfactory results. 
I first tried the effect of viburnum prunifolium on three short 
horn bred cows that had aborted three times successively, each 
carried under treatnftent to full term. 
Of a herd of thirty natives, of which nine had aborted in a 
very short time, all cows with calf treated with viburnum pruni¬ 
folium carried to full term. One which received no medicine 
aborted. 
Next, a herd of forty Ayrshire grade were treated with V. P. in 
reduced doses to experiment. One heifer so treated was saved, 
and six aborted. I then resumed my usual dose and no more 
aborted. 
A large herd of Jerseys, of which one-half of the heifers 
usually aborted, treated witli Vib. P. no recurrence of the same. 
In my judgment this resulted from an epidemic of abortion among 
the whole herd about seven years previous. 
At present am treating a small but very choice herd of Jer¬ 
seys. .Several of the herd having aborted I was called to treat 
them. Prescribed viburnum prunifolium and no abortion has 
since occurred. 
Many isolated cases might be mentioned which have afforded 
the same satisfactory results. 
JDose—One-half drachm every day in cases of infection. 
Threatened abortion, same dose every hour or two as the case may 
require and confine in large box stall. 
The following extracts relating to the use of viburnum prun- 
ifolium as a preventitive of abortion, led me to try its effects 
upon cattle: 
Hr. Pliares, of Alabama, who has used the viburnum prun¬ 
ifolium very extensively, writes of his experience as follows in 
Hale’s “New Remedies:” 
“ It is nervine,•antispasmodic, tonic, astringent, diuretic, and 
may be used to very good purpose in urinary affections, ophthal¬ 
mia, aphthous sore mouth, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, indolent 
ulcers, &c. It is an excellent remedy in colic, cramp, spasms, 
