482 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR 
TREATMENT FOR DISEASES OF HORSES 
AND CATTLE. 
Our readers, who are interested in this part of our work, 
will excuse us for our briefness. To deal fully with the troubles 
of the above animals would require much more space than is. 
at our disposal, It may be a cause for congratulation that 
the lower animals are not subject to so many diseases as their 
lord. There are but a few in the colonies that cause breeders. 
and owners anxiety. It is with them that we intend to 
deal in the present chapter, and it will be seen from our 
treatment that our medicines for cattle are about the same as 
forman. This is so, and it is reasonable, for it is evident to 
the reflecting that they are built up, so to speak, on the same 
plan and of the same material. We, with them, are the work 
of the same Divine mind and power. Doses of medicine for 
horses and oxen are usually reekoned at eight times the 
quantity given to man. The difference in the sizes in 
animals must not be lost sight of, as some are more than twice 
the size of others. In giving liquid medicine to cattle it is 
well to give it with a lemonade bottle, as an ordinary one may 
breakin their mouth and cause mischief. 
ASTHMA, OR SHORT-WINDEDNESS, 
Is a condition that horses sometimes develop. We know of 
no better remedy than lobelia, in powder. <A tablespoonful 
with one of composition powder may be given once or twicea 
day. Jf cough is present, give the cough powder ; ifit comes 
on in fits, burn some of the asthma powder under the nose. 
GRIPES. 
Horses are often subject to this. The treatment that we 
have known to relieve them is a tablespoonful of composition 
powder, and a dessert- or half dessert spoonful of cayenne, or 
substitute the colic powder for the composition, or, if a 
severe attack, one spoonful of composition and colic powder, 
