488 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
inclined to be costive administer half a bottle of linseed oil, 
with a dessert spoonful of cayenne pepper ; infuse the pepper 
in a little boiling water and mix it with the oil. If the udder 
is heavy, draw the milk off a day or two before calving. The 
first symptoms appear immediately after calving and are: 
stoppage of the flow of mulk, suspended rumination, and 
staggering. Various remedies are applied, but except they 
are prompt and thorough there is very little hope of a cure 
after it has fairly set in. After a long experience with cattle 
the only remedy that we have found effectual is the 
following :-— 
Have ready a sheet, two or three blankets, or bags opened 
out lengthways, and a horsecover. Soak the sheet in water, 
wring it out, and pass it under the cow, being careful to cover 
all the stomach ; bring it up each side, overlap on the back ;. 
now take your blankets or open sacks, pass these round over 
the sheet one after the other, fix on each one with a nail or 
two in the form of pins, see that the wet sheet is all covered ; 
next place the large cover of the back and fix it underneath. 
You cannot be too careful in covering all the wet sheet, this 
careful covering is to raise a heat and make the animal sweat. 
When the covers are fixed give the animal] one pound of salts 
and two dessertspoonfuls of cayenne pepper, also give 
injections of warm water and soap every half hour. In two 
hours from packing the covers may be removed and the 
animal well rubbed down, packing being repeated if 
necessary. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
This is one of the most virulent animal diseases of 
modern times, for it is only within the memory of living men 
that such a disease came under observation. Introduced from. 
Ireland to England by half-starved cattle, it spread rapidly 
over the country. Since then the animal loss from this disease 
exceeds perhaps any estimate that has been made. Town 
dairies suffered severely, in some cases entire stocks were 
swept away. In rural districts sometimes the disease would 
