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BOVINE PRESCRIBER 
 
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 t)eterinarg Practitioners anb Stnbente 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES B. and ALBERT GRESSWELL 
 
 AUTHORS OF A MANUAL OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EQUINE 
 
 medicine; DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE horsk; THE 
 
 EQUINE HOSPITAL PRESCRIBES, ETC. 
 
 THIRD EDITION 
 
 ENLARGED AND REVISED BY 
 
 GEORGE GRESSWELL, M.A., Oxon. 
 
 L.R.C.P. & S.E., L.F.P.S.G. 
 
 AUTHOR OF THE VETERINARY PH ARMACOP02IA ; DISEASES AND DIS- 
 ORDERS OF THE OX, ETC. 
 
 New York 
 
 WILLIAM R. JENKINS CO. 
 
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 (Cor. 48th Street) 
 
 1911 
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PROFESSOR W. ROBERTSON, F.R.C.V.S., 
 
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 VETERINARY SCIENCE, 
 
 BY 
 
 THE AUTHORS. 
 
PEEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Considerable enlargement, as well as some alteration, 
 make this production almost a new work. An effort has 
 been made to apply the latest results of scientific research 
 to the treatment of the maladies of oxen. If the immense 
 importance of these animals, as at once the sources of 
 our milk-supply, and of much of the meat which we 
 consume, be considered, it will be obvious how very im- 
 portant a knowledge of the best remedies for the various 
 diseases to which they are liable to be subjected must be. 
 One of the chief points of peculiarity in regard to the 
 action of medicines on Ruminants (to which group of 
 animals, as everyone knows, the ox and the sheep belong) 
 arises from the complexity of their digestive system. 
 That portion of the alimentary canal, to which the name 
 of stomach is given, is in these creatures divided into no 
 less than four distinct compartments, called respectively 
 the Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum, Abomasum or Many- 
 plies. These four parts are, moreover, extensively lined 
 with a cuticular mucous membrane, and the first three 
 cavities are less vascular than the last, and they have, 
 in fact, rather a mechanical than a digestive function. 
 Again, the first and the last, i.e., the rumen and the 
 manvplies, are never empty, but always contain food— 
 
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 often in large amount. It is in the fourth stomach that 
 true digestion takes place. Hence it comes about that 
 cattle require large doses of nearly all medicines. For 
 instance, whereas a drachm of Epsom salts will suffice 
 for a man, an ox will require about sixteen ounces, i.e., 
 128 times as much. The intestinal tract of an ox is, so 
 to speak, protected at the outset, and is not so easily 
 acted upon, as is that of other animals, and, since all 
 medicines given by the mouth pass through that conduit 
 to some extent at least, the same result follows in regard 
 to other remedies also. 
 
 The prescriptions given are made up — except when 
 otherwise stated — for adult oxen. Sheep are acted upon 
 in a very similar manner, provided that about one-fifth 
 or one-sixth of the dose be given. In order to give 
 medicine to a sheep, the animal should be backed into a 
 corner and the head be held firmly between the knees, 
 whilst the medicine is carefully administered. Special 
 care is necessary, lest they choke, and this caution is also 
 applicable in the case of oxen, and indeed of all animals. 
 
 Should it be desired to prescribe for sheep, some hints 
 may be gathered from this book. Although the formulas 
 are made for oxen, it is to be remembered that an adult 
 sheep will generally take about one-fifth of the dose 
 necessary for an ox, and that lambs will, of course, 
 require very much less than this. Judgment is requisite 
 in apportioning the quantities of medicines, and when 
 one is in doubt, it is always best to err on the safe side, 
 and be content with giving a small rather than a large 
 amount. When more than one prescription is mentioned 
 under the same disease, the different draughts are to be 
 considered alternative, and the reader should, after careful 
 perusal, decide which mode of treatment he thinks most 
 
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 suitable in any given case. When two or more different 
 remedies are required, this is specially stated. This little 
 book does not pretend to give full information of the 
 various diseases and disorders to which cattle are liable. 
 For more complete knowledge the authors would respect- 
 fully refer the reader to a work entitled ' The Diseases 
 and Disorders of the Ox,' by George Gresswell, published 
 by Wm. H. Allen and Co. 
 
 The letters ' V.P.' refer to ' The Veterinary Pharma- 
 copoeia ' (by the same author, and published by Bailliere 
 and Co.). This is of some importance in certain cases. 
 For instance, the tincture of aconite mentioned in that 
 work is the same as that of the British Pharmacopoeia, 
 and very different from that known as Fleming's tincture, 
 which, being about five times as strong, must therefore 
 be used with the greatest possible caution. It is always 
 advisable, especially in the case of the more potent drugs, 
 to use the milder preparations. 
 
 For the benefit of those who are not thoroughly con- 
 versant with the technical names of preparations, a 
 Pharmacopoeia (either the B.P. or the V.P.) should 
 always be at hand whilst one is mixing medicines, for 
 the sake of reference, if required. Otherwise very serious 
 mistakes may arise, such as, for example, the use of 
 chloroform, instead of spirit of chloroform, and similar 
 errors of a disastrous nature may assail the beginner, 
 and probably lead to very bad results. There is indeed 
 no science which requires greater judgment, care, and 
 accuracy than that of prescribing for the numerous 
 maladies to which animals are liable, except, indeed, 
 that of human medicine, which is, of course, still more 
 difficult. 
 
 To lovers of strict compatibility in prescriptions, we 
 
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 would beg to point out that in cases where the absence 
 of this characteristic may be found, the want of this 
 quality is no bar to their efficacy, since the combinations 
 formed are those really wished for. 
 
 Finally, the only statement remaining is that, whilst 
 thanking our reviewers and readers for past favours, we 
 hope to meet with a continuance of that kind considera- 
 tion which has always been accorded to our efforts by 
 the press, the profession, and the public. 
 
 George Gresswell. 
 
 Kelsey House, Louth, Lincolnshire, 
 December 21, 1893. 
 
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 
 
 It is sincerely hoped by the authors that ' The Bovine 
 Prescriber ' may prove no less useful to practitioners 
 and students of veterinary medicine than ' The Equine 
 Hospital Prescriber,' a work recently published for us by 
 Messrs. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, and written upon 
 the same plan as this our latest production in the field 
 of Veterinary Science. We may even be excused for 
 supposing that it will be received with still greater favour 
 by those to whom it appeals for support, inasmuch as 
 the need for careful and scientific work is far greater in 
 bovine than in equine practice. Indeed, it is scarcely 
 too much to say that the science of therapeutics as 
 applicable to cattle is as yet in its infancy. Many 
 causes conduce to this backwardness in cattle practice, 
 the chief of which is, perhaps, the smaller value of 
 oxen than of horses. Yet, as time goes on, our methods 
 of prevention and cure will become greater, in due pro- 
 portion to the advance which is in these days being 
 made so rapidly and surely in all departments of in- 
 quiry, and the veterinary surgeon who really takes in 
 hand to learn thoroughly all that can be acquired in the 
 field of bovine medicine and surgery, a field as yet 
 
Xll PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 almost untrodden except by the few, may feel assured of 
 a rich reward. 
 
 The farmer, too, will become more and more convinced 
 as years go on that many cases which are now summarily 
 consigned into the butcher's hands would be more profit- 
 ably given over to the care of the cultured and careful 
 scientist, who will be able to tell him almost at a glance 
 what are the relative advantages and disadvantages of 
 treatment as opposed to slaughtering ; and when he 
 would be well advised to avoid the risk of a lingering 
 illness or a possible fatal termination, whereby the loss 
 would be made twofold. In short, the two classes will 
 find their mutual benefits enhanced in proportion as 
 bovine medical science advances in accuracy and pre- 
 cision. More than that, the great work of Science as a 
 whole will be advanced by those who study specially 
 the diseases and disorders of cattle, and the means by 
 which they may be prevented or remedied. It is not too 
 much to say that Bovine Medicine takes a rank second 
 to no other veterinary branch in regard to its influence 
 on medicine at large. If, owing to a long experience 
 of nearly fifty years of ourselves and the late Mr. D. 
 Gresswell, we have been enabled to help this science 
 onwards in any degree, we shall be thankful. 
 
 In prescribing aconite we have discarded the use 
 of Fleming's Tincture, not because we have any fault 
 whatever to find with it, but because mistakes are apt to 
 arise from want of uniformity. We have, therefore, 
 always referred in this work to the Tincture of the 
 British Pharmacopoeia. Also in the case of acetate of 
 ammonium, we have invariably recommended the pre- 
 paration known in the B.P. as the Liquor Ammonii 
 Acetatis. If the stronger solution, which is five times 
 
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Xlll 
 
 as strong, is used, a proportionately small dose must of 
 course be given. It seems preferable, as a rule, to use 
 the more highly diluted preparations. 
 
 We have to acknowledge the very kind help and 
 valuable suggestions of Mr. George Gresswell, author of 
 ' The Veterinary Pharmacopoeia,' etc., who has revised 
 and corrected the whole work where it was necessary, 
 and has added portions here and there. 
 ALBERT GRESSWELL, 
 
 Kelset House, Louth, Lincolnshire. 
 -TAMES BRODIE GRESSWELL, 
 
 Veterinary Institute, Louth, Lincolnshire. 
 
 September 23, 1SS6. 
 
THE BOVINE PEESCEIBER. 
 
 Abdomen, Dropsy of the. 
 
 (a) Spirit of nitrous ether, two fluid ounces. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
 (b) Paracentesis abdominis in suitable cases. 
 
 The puncture is made with a small trocar and canula 
 midway between the umbilicus and the symphysis pubis. 
 It is not often the case that this treatment is required. 
 
 (c) Salts of iron, given alternately with vegetable tonics 
 
 or digitalis. 
 
 Absorbent Ointment for Drying Cows' Udders. 
 White lead, two and a half pounds. 
 Acetate of lead, ten ounces. 
 Alum, ten ounces. 
 
 Palm-oil, seven pounds or a sufficient quantity. 
 Colour with rose-pink. 
 
 Acarus Scabiei (causing Mange). 
 
 First wash the skin thoroughly with soft soap and 
 warm water. Tar or infusions of stavesacre or of tobacco 
 may be used. The best remedy is sulphur ointment, 
 made as follows : 
 
 Sublimed sulphur, one part\ w-. ,, 
 Benzoated lard, four parts / 
 This ointment should be well applied, if possible, every 
 other day, or twice or thrice weekly, for a long period, 
 
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 over the whole of the affected parts and neighbouring 
 regions. Mange cannot be cured except by frequent 
 applications continued over a long space of time. 
 Another preparation is as follows : 
 Sulphur, one ounce (or eight parts). 
 Oil of stavesacre, one fluid drachm (or one part). 
 Lard, two ounces (or sixteen parts). 
 Another is as follows : 
 Oil of tar ^ 
 
 Oil of turpentine I Equal parts. Mix well. 
 Linseed-oil J 
 
 Wash the skin thoroughly every day with carbolic 
 soap and warm water, and then rub the preparation into 
 the skin with a brush (Dobson). 
 
 Aconite Poisoning. 
 
 Spiritus ammonias aromaticus, two fluid ounces. 
 Brandy, four fluid ounces. 
 Give in a pint of gruel, and repeat at intervals of two 
 hours, or more frequently. 
 
 Actinomycosis. 
 
 This disease is caused by a fungus of the genus 
 Actinomyces, and it has been found in man, pig, and ox. 
 The tumours are generally found near the mucous or 
 cutaneous surfaces, and especially occur in the bones of 
 the jaw, tongue, pharynx, larynx, gullet, teats, lungs, 
 skin, soft parts of face and neck, and in the tissue round 
 the pharynx. 
 
 (a) Local treatment : 
 
 Mixture. 
 Iodine, one part. 
 Carbolic acid, four fluid parts. 
 Glycerine four fluid parts. 
 
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 The affected part (e.g., of the tongue) may be, when 
 advisable, carefully incised, and the above mixture is 
 then to be applied by means of a brush to the sides of 
 the hardened tumours. Sometimes, instead of tumours, 
 however, cold abscesses may form, and these should, 
 where practicable, be first thoroughly opened and the 
 pus removed. 
 
 In the place of the above mixture, simple tincture of 
 iodine may be used, or it may be diluted with an equal 
 portion of methylated spirit. 
 
 Gargle. 
 
 Acid solution of nitrate of mercury, eight minims. 
 
 Water, one fluid ounce. 
 This gargle may be applied to the diseased tongue 
 after the tumours have been incised. 
 (b) Internal treatment : 
 
 Tonics or suitable germicidal agents. 
 
 Adynamia Nervosa Generalis, or Pre-Parturient Adynamia. 
 
 This name is given to that nervous debility which 
 affects some cows at the latter period of pregnancy 
 There is loss of power to rise, the skin is cold, the pulse 
 weak, and the bowels may be constipated. It may be 
 due to pressure of the uterus on the posterior aorta, 
 interfering with the blood-supply to the hind-legs. 
 
 Draught. 
 Solution- of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two fluid 
 
 drachms. 
 Tincture of perchloride of iron, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water up to eight fluid ounces. 
 This draught may be given twice daily. The treat- 
 
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 lent should begin with a good cathartic dose (vide 
 Cathartics). 
 
 After-Pains. 
 
 These pains may, if severe, indicate the retention of 
 foetal membranes, injury of the uterus, or even a stoppage 
 in the bowels. If they are due to retention, ergot should 
 be given ; if to slight injury, cleanliness and rest will be 
 best treatment, coupled with the draught given below ; 
 whilst if the pains are caused by constipation, a cathartic 
 should be administered. 
 
 Draught. 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Water to make one pint. 
 Give twice daily for a day or two, as may be necessary. 
 
 Agalactia, or Non-Secretion of Milk. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Powdered aniseeds, two ounces. 
 
 Powdered gentian, two ounces. 
 Mix in a pint of warm water or beer, and give twice 
 or thrice daily. If the cow be healthy in other respects, 
 the diet should be full and nutritious. However, a 
 cessation of the secretion is frequently one of the 
 symptoms of some general disease ; whilst if, on the 
 other hand, the mammary gland be greatly wasted, 
 treatment is not likely to be of much value. 
 
 Albuminuria. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered caraway seeds, half an ounce. 
 Give the above in a pint of warm water or gruel ; and 
 

 
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 on the following day vegetable tonics should be com- 
 menced, and administered twice or thrice daily. 
 
 Alopecia, or Falling-off of the Hair. 
 
 This condition may sometimes be cured by cleanliness 
 coupled with repeated mild stimulation, such as by tinc- 
 ture of cantharides, and attention to the general health, 
 food-supply, and the action of the bowels should not be 
 overlooked. Moreover, there may be some primary 
 cause, which should be discovered and attended to. For 
 instance, some parasitic or other kind of skin disease 
 may be at the root of the mischief. 
 
 Amaurosis (Paralysis of the Retina). 
 
 This condition of deficient vision is not frequent in the 
 ox. When it results from anaemia or general debility, 
 attention should be given to the food-supply, and any of 
 the draughts mentioned under Anaemia may be tried. 
 
 Anaemia. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Powdered gentian, an ounce and a half. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Granulated sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Powdered nux vomica, thirty grains. 
 Powdered capsicum, half a drachm. 
 The above may be given twice daily in a pint of warm 
 water, gruel, or ale. If the bowels should be constipated, 
 a laxative will be requisite. 
 
 (ii.) Powdered gentian, one ounce. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, half an ounce. 
 Carbonate of iron, two drachms. 
 
 ■ 
 
G THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Administer twice daily in a pint of warm water, gruel, 
 or ale. 
 
 (iii.) Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two 
 fluid drachms. 
 Tincture of capsicum, four fluid drachms. 
 Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 This should be given only once daily, in a pint of warm 
 water or gruel. 
 
 Anaesthetics. 
 
 (a) General : 
 
 Inhalation of chloroform. 
 From three to six fluid ounces, or even more, are 
 generally requisite in order to produce total anaesthesia 
 in cattle. This is not often necessary in the case of 
 oxen. 
 
 (b) Local : 
 
 Application of hydrochlorate of cocaine, 
 (i.) In the case of an operation on the eye. 
 
 Hydrochlorate of cocaine, two to four parts. 
 Water, one hundred fluid parts, 
 (ii.) In the case of an operation on any part other 
 than the eye. 
 Hydrochlorate of cocaine, four to twenty parts. 
 Water, one hundred fluid parts. 
 
 Angleherries. 
 
 These tumours may be removed by means of the clam 
 and actual cautery. The clam is fixed round the base of 
 the tumour, which is then burnt off with the cautery. 
 Any bland or soothing ointment or black-oil is useful as 
 an after-dressing. 
 
THE BOVINE PKKSCRIBER. 
 
 Anthrax. 
 
 This is one of the most important of the germ diseases 
 which affect cattle. It is communicable to other animals 
 and also to human beings, and is a very deadly disorder ; 
 it is due to the presence of the Bacillus anthracis in 
 the blood, wherein it multiplies rapidly, and may cause 
 death in a few hours or days. These bacilli have been 
 found in the soil of meadows well known for their 
 liability to produce this malady. They are, when injected 
 into the blood, productive of the disease. As a rule, they 
 probably enter the blood through slight wounds in the 
 mouth produced by the food. 
 
 Draught (antiseptic and antipyretic). 
 
 Sulphite of sodium, three drachms. 
 Salicylate of sodium, three drachms. 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Administer every four hours. 
 
 Draught (antiseptic). 
 
 Liquefied carbolic acid, thirty minims. 
 
 Gentian, two ounces. 
 
 Aniseeds, two ounces. 
 This draught may be given every four hours, mixed in 
 a pint of water. 
 
 N.B. — It is to be observed, however, that in cases of 
 an outbreak of this disease, the only admissible course to 
 be taken, having regard to the immense danger of a 
 spread not only to other animals, but even to mankind, 
 is that the animals should be immediately shot, and 
 buried, with antiseptic precautions, at a good depth- 
 Great care, too, should be exercised in handling the 
 
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 carcases, and it should be remembered that the blood of 
 such animals is exceedingly liable to convey the infection. 
 There would be great danger of being attacked by the 
 disease if any risk be run, and although we have inserted 
 two draughts above, we must reiterate that in all cases 
 of undoubted anthrax no treatment should on any account 
 be carried out, but the animals should be at once shot to 
 obviate a spread of this dreadful malady. 
 
 Antiseptics. 
 
 (a) Internal : 
 
 Antiseptic Powders. 
 
 (i.) Sulphur, one pound. 
 
 Sulphite of sodium, one pound. 
 Milk of sulphur, one pound. 
 Fenugreek, one pound. 
 Aniseeds, one pound. 
 Two tablespoonfuls to be given thrice daily in the 
 food or water. 
 
 (ii.) Sulphur four pounds. 
 
 Sulphite of sodium, four pounds. 
 Carbonate of sodium, one and a half pounds. 
 Carbonate of iron, a quarter of a pound. 
 Tonics, three pounds. 
 One tablespoonful to be given twice or thrice daily in 
 the food. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Sulphite of sodium, three drachms. 
 Salicylate of sodium, three drachms. 
 Water, a sufficient quantity, 
 (ii.) Salicylate of sodium, two drachms. 
 Brandy, eight fluid ounces. 
 Water, a sufficient quantity. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 (iii.) Carbolic acid, thirty minims. 
 Brandy, one pint. 
 May be given twice daily, if necessary 
 (iv. ) Carbolic acid, thirty minims. 
 Glycerine, half a fluid ounce. 
 Mucilage of acacia, ten fluid ounces. 
 
 (6) Local : 
 
 Lotions. 
 
 (i.) Carbolic acid, one fluid part. 
 Glycerine, one fluid part. 
 Water, twenty to thirty fluid parts, 
 (ii.) Boric acid, one part. 
 
 Hot water, twenty fluid parts, 
 (iii.) Perchloride of mercury, one part. 
 
 Water, from five hundred to eight hundred fluid 
 parts. 
 This last lotion is of great value for foul sores and 
 ulcers. It is also destructive of lice, and of the scab 
 acarus, and of the fungus of ringworm. This solution is 
 very poisonous, and hence great care is necessary, and it 
 should not be left about, for fear of mistakes arising. It 
 should be labelled ' Poison.' 
 
 (iv.) Sulphite of sodium, half a fluid ounce. 
 Carbolic acid, one fluid drachm. 
 Eectified spirit, one fluid ounce. 
 Water to make one pint. 
 
 Ointments. 
 
 (i.) Boric acid, one part. 
 Vaseline, three parts. 
 Lard, three parts. 
 
10 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBE!*. 
 
 ii.) Iodoform, twenty grains. 
 
 Oil of eucalyptus, twenty minims. 
 Carbolic acid, twenty minims. 
 Lard or vaseline, one ounce and a half, 
 (iii.) Carbolic acid, one part. 
 
 Lard or vaseline, thirty parts. 
 
 Antipyretics. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Salicylate of sodium, four drachms. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), thirty minims. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 "Water, twelve ounces. 
 This draught may be repeated at intervals of four 
 hours if the temperature be still elevated, 
 (ii.) Salicylic aci'd, three drachms. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, twelve ounces. 
 This draught may be repeated at intervals of four 
 hours if necessary. 
 
 Antispasmodics. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Oil of turpentine, one fluid ounce. 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, to make one pint. 
 This draught may be given in half a pint of thin gruel 
 instead of the water, and it may be repeated at intervals 
 of three or four hours, if the pain still continues, 
 (ii.) Ether, two fluid ounces. 
 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Tincture of pimento, two fluid ounces. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBES. 11 
 
 Administer in a pint of thin gruel, and repeat at 
 intervals of three or four hours, if need be. 
 
 N.B. — It is not "wise to give ether to cattle, when it 
 may ultimately be desired to use the meat for food. 
 
 Aperients. 
 
 (i.) Sulphate of magnesium, twelve to sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 This mixture may be given in a pint of warm water 
 (best). 
 
 (ii.) Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Powdered caraway seeds, half an ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm water. (Not quite so reliable.) 
 
 (iii.) Castor oil, two pints. 
 
 Aphtha. 
 
 (a) Internal treatment : 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Chlorate of potassium, four drachms. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 This draught may be given three or four times daily. 
 It is best to begin treatment with a good dose of aperient 
 medicine, as (i.) under Aperients. 
 
 (ii.) Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 Diluted hydrochloric acid, two fluid ounces. 
 Glycerine, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, to make ten fluid ounces. 
 Thrice daily, if required. 
 
12 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 (b) Local treatment : 
 
 Gargles (all of which may be used several times daily), 
 (i.) Boric acid, one part. 
 Glycerine, five fluid parts. 
 Water, eleven fluid parts, 
 (ii.) Acid solution of nitrate of mercury, eight minims. 
 
 Water, one pint, 
 (iii.) Permanganate of potassium, eight grains. 
 Water, one pint. 
 
 Aphtha Epizootica. 
 
 (a) Internal treatment : 
 
 Draughts. 
 (i.) Salicylate of sodium, three drachms. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, four fluid ounces. 
 Twice daily. 
 
 (ii.) Sulphite of sodium, three drachms. 
 Water to make eight fluid ounces. 
 Twice or thrice daily. 
 
 Poioder. 
 Sulphite of sodium, three drachms. 
 Aniseeds, one ounce. 
 Fenugreek, one ounce. 
 This powder may be mixed in the food twice or thrice 
 daily, and it is rather preferable to the administration of 
 draughts. 
 
 (b) Local treatment : 
 
 Gargles. — See Apht 
 Ointment. 
 For the affected feet and teats, either the ointment of 
 boric acid or that of carbolic acid, or, better still, that 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 13 
 
 of iodoform, eucalyptus, and carbolic acid, may be used. 
 Ointment of salicylic acid is also excellent, but some- 
 times a little too irritating when applied to very tender 
 parts. 
 
 Aphtha Epizobtica affecting Sucking Calves. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of sodium, two drachms. 
 Salicylic acid, two drachms. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 Give one tablespoonful twice or thrice daily. 
 
 Apoplexy. 
 
 In cases of this disease, as a rule, the prognosis is so 
 unfavourable that it is wisest to advise slaughter. If, 
 however, the animal be seen in the first stage of dulness, 
 and treatment be decided upon, the best is to try a very 
 strong cathartic, coupled with free bleeding, and the 
 application of a powerful embrocation to the loins and 
 spine. 
 
 Apoplexy, Parturient (Parturient Apoplexy, or Milk- 
 Fever). 
 
 In the first instance it is best to administer a cathartic; 
 for example, a 
 
 Mixture. 
 
 Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Solution of aloes, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Mix in a pint of gruel, and give whilst warm. This 
 
 should be followed by the administration of a pint of 
 
 brandy and seven pounds of treacle. It is also of the 
 
 highest importance that the urine should be drawn off 
 
14 THE BOVINE PRESCR1BER. 
 
 with a catheter. In addition, one of the following 
 should be given : 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Carbonate of ammonium, one drachm. 
 Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 This draught should be given, together with six fluid 
 ounces of brandy or whisky, in a pint of warm water every 
 four hours. 
 
 (ii.) Carbonate of ammonium, three ounces. 
 Gentian, three ounces. 
 Ginger, three ounces. 
 Aniseeds, twelve ounces. 
 Oil of turpentine, three ounces. 
 Mix the above ingredients, and divide into six drenches, 
 and give one every three hours mixed in a pint of warm 
 gruel. 
 
 (iii.) Oil of turpentine, half a fluid ounce. 
 
 Aromatic spirit of ammonia, two fluid ounces. 
 Oil of lavender, three minims. 
 Water to make one pint. 
 Give every three hours. 
 
 Hypodermic Injection. 
 
 Injectio ergotini hypodermica (B.P.), fifty to sixty 
 minims. 
 The above hypodermic injection of ergotin, of which 
 the dose mentioned is equivalent to about twenty-eight 
 grains of ergotin, may be employed when ergot is not 
 given with the stimulating draught above prescribed. It 
 is to be remembered that the hypodermic injection of 
 ergotin is the most rapid and effectual method of intro- 
 ducing ergot into the system. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 15 
 
 Liniment. 
 
 Liniment of ammonia, one fluid part. 
 
 Compound liniment of camphor, one fluid part. 
 This liniment may be rubbed on the spine frequently ; 
 but it is to be remembered that liniment of belladonna 
 should not be used, because of its absorbent effect on the 
 mammary and other glands. 
 
 Wet Pack. 
 
 The wet pack, carefully applied, acts as an efficient 
 sudorific, and the temperature may also be much reduced 
 by this agent. It is a very valuable adjunct to the 
 internal treatment, and should not be omitted. 
 
 Apoplexy, Splenic (Splenic Apoplexy). 
 
 This disease is the same as Anthrax. See page 7. 
 Arsenical Poisoning. 
 
 When acute, the condition may be treated as follows : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Hydrated sesquioxide of iron, four to six drachms. 
 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be repeated at intervals of three or 
 four hours, until about four or five doses have been taken. 
 The hydrated sesquioxide of iron must be used freshly 
 prepared. 
 
 Arthritis. 
 
 Salicylate of sodium, or acetate of ammonium, or both 
 these salts in suitable doses, and in conjunction with 
 bicarbonate of potassium, may be tried. Flannel ban- 
 
16 THE BOVINE PEESCRIBER. 
 
 dages may be wrapped round the swollen joints. Should 
 the swellings become chronic, preparations of iodine (the 
 tincture or the compound ointment of iodine) or ointment 
 of cantharides may be applied. 
 
 Arthritis, Scrofulous. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Granulated sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Phosphate of calcium, four drachms. 
 This remedy may be given in a pint of water twice 
 or thrice daily. 
 
 Liniment. 
 
 Oil of turpentine, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Strong solution of ammonia, three fluid ounces. 
 
 Soft soap, four ounces. 
 Digest, and then shake at intervals, and add water to 
 make two quarts of liniment. The embrocation may be 
 applied to the affected joints once or twice daily. 
 
 Ascites, or Dropsy of the Abdomen. 
 
 This is a condition of an animal in which fluid is 
 present in the abdominal cavity. The disease is the 
 consequence of general debility, or of some mechanical 
 impediment to the return of venous blood to the heart, 
 caused, perhaps, by diseases of that organ or of the liver, 
 or by the pressure of a tumour upon the vena porta. 
 The abdomen is distended, and if one hand be placed 
 upon the body, whilst the opposite side is percussed, a 
 wave of fluid may be detected. 
 
 The strength should be maintained with stimulant 
 tonics. Salts of iron, given alternately with vegetable 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBE!?. 17 
 
 tonics or digitalis, may be tried, and in certain cases 
 paracentesis abdominis may be carried out, the puncture 
 being made with a small trocar and canula midway be- 
 tween the umbilicus and the symphysis pubis. 
 
 Astringents. — See also Diarrhoea. 
 
 (a) Internal treatment : 
 
 Mixtures (for adult animals), 
 (i.) Pulv. opii, 5ii. 
 Pulv. catechu, 5ii. 
 Pulv. galls, 5iii. 
 Sulphate of iron, ~,ii. 
 Prepared chalk, gi. 
 Ginger, 5 ss. 
 Gentian, gi. 
 Add sufficient water, mixed with four ounces of starch 
 dissolved in it to make one pint in all, and administer 
 when the mixture is cool, 
 (ii.) Pulv. opii, 5ii. 
 
 Bismuthi subnit., 5iv. 
 Powdered starch, §iv. 
 Add boiling water to make two pints. 
 Mixture (for calves). — See 'Calf and Foal Cordial ' in 
 'The Equine Prescriber.' 
 
 (b) External treatment : 
 
 Lotion. 
 Sulphate of copper, five drachms and twenty grains. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 This lotion may be applied to discharging sores. 
 
 Ointment. 
 Oxide of zinc, one drachm. 
 Lard, one ounce. 
 Application for ulcers. 
 
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18 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Bezoars, or Calculi. 
 
 These may be present in the abomasum of sheep. In 
 past times it was believed that they were produced by 
 magic, and persons were actually sent to the galleys 
 because they were supposed to be at the root of the 
 mischief. They were also supposed to possess wonderful 
 virtues in regard to the cure of human ills. For instance, 
 they were thought to be effective against the poison 
 of the viper and scorpion, against vertigo, epilepsy, 
 dysentery, pneumonia, malignant fever, the plague, and 
 leprosy. These bezoars may be found in every species 
 of deer and antelope, in the elephant, rhinoceros, and 
 porcupine. Some from the elephant and porcupine have 
 been sold for the extravagant sum of £800. They are 
 not very harmful. There may be one, or as many even 
 as sixteen. They are most usually found in September 
 and October, this being the time of moulting in the 
 sheep. The skin feeling irritable, the sheep lick and 
 gnaw themselves at this period, and thus swallow a 
 great deal of wool. These bezoars are never discharged 
 by the intestines. They will burn, and are soluble in 
 boiling water. 
 
 Bites and Stings (of Bees, Wasps, Scorpions, etc.). 
 Lotion. 
 
 Carbolic acid, one fluid part. 
 
 Glycerine, one fluid part. 
 This lotion may be used as it is, or diluted with water, 
 and it may be very beneficial in causing subsidence of 
 the swelling and irritation caused by the wound. Of 
 course, great care will be necessary on the part of the 
 attendant, in applying the above strong preparation, not 
 to let it come into contact with his own flesh. The 
 
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 liquefied carbolic acid of the V.P. may be used in its 
 undiluted form. Likewise, solution of ammonia, and 
 also iodoform in powder, or a very strong solution of 
 permanganate of potassium, are very useful. If the 
 animal by whom the bite has been inflicted be really 
 rabid, strict isolation and slaughter of both animals 
 ought to be carried out, so that that dreadful disease, 
 rabies, may not be propagated. 
 
 Black Hellebore, Poisoning by. 
 
 The black hellebore is sometimes used as a counter- 
 irritant dressing for setons inserted in the dew-lap. This 
 practice is a very bad one. In a case of extreme in- 
 flammation set up by this means, the swelling should be 
 fomented, and a full purgative dose given. 
 
 Black Leg, or Black Quarter. 
 
 This is a germ-disease of an anthracoid character — i.e., 
 allied to anthrax, probably, or at any rate of like type. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphite of sodium, one drachm. 
 Salicylate of sodium, one drachm. 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given every six hours. 
 
 Preventive Treatment. 
 
 Setoning is frequently carried out. It may be the 
 case that the germs of the above disease gain entrance 
 into the system by the medium of the air, so that, if 
 this explanation be correct, setoning is in reality tanta- 
 mount to a mild or attenuated inoculation. Possibly it 
 may not be the actual virus of black quarter which thus 
 enters, but rather some germ which acts as a protective 
 
20 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 agent, just as vaccination has an antagonistic power 
 against small-pox. The setons should be dressed with 
 black-oil. 
 
 Bladder, Inflammation of the (Cystitis). 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given thrice daily. The bowels 
 must also be attended to, and fomentations may be tried. 
 Buchu is also a useful remedy. 
 
 Blain. — See Glossanthrax. 
 Bleeding, or Haemorrhage. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 Diluted hydrochloric acid, four fluid drachms. 
 Glycerine, two fluid ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 (ii.) Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 Powdered galls, two ounces. 
 These two powders should be well mixed, and then 
 given in a pint of warm water. The dose may be repeated 
 at intervals if necessary. 
 
 (iii.) Oil of turpentine, one fluid ounce. 
 
 Fluid extract of ergot, half a fluid ounce. 
 Linseed-oil, four and a half fluid ounces. 
 This draught may be given twice daily, and afterwards 
 followed up with sulphate of iron and tonics. The value 
 of turpentine and ergot in cases of bleeding has been 
 proved by much experience. 
 
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 Bleeding, Postpartum. 
 
 (a) Internal treatment : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Powdered ergot, one to two ounces. 
 This powder may be given in a pint of warm water, 
 and repeated every one or two hours. 
 
 Hypodermic Injection. 
 
 Injectio ergotini hypodermica, one fluid drachm. 
 This may be injected at intervals of one to two hours. 
 (Gresswell's V.P., p. 209.) 
 
 (b) Local treatment : 
 
 Application of cloths soaked either in very hot water 
 or in cold water and well wrung out. These should be 
 stuffed in as a plug. On the whole, we prefer that the 
 cloths should be soaked in very hot water. An intra- 
 uterine injection of hot water is also often efficacious. 
 
 Blisters. 
 
 (i.) Blistering Liniment. 
 
 Powdered cantharides, one ounce. 
 Olive-oil, eight fluid ounces. 
 Digest over a hot bath. 
 
 (ii.) Absorbent Blistering Liniment. 
 
 Iodine, one ounce and a quarter. 
 Iodide of potassium, half an ounce. 
 Camphor, two drachms. 
 Methylated spirit, half a pint. 
 This liniment is to be applied by means of a brush. 
 
 (iii.) Mustard Liniment. 
 Mustard, four ounces. 
 Oil of turpentine, five fluid ounces. 
 
22 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Digest these two ingredients together for ten days, 
 and then add a sufficient quantity of linseed-oil. 
 
 (iv.) Blistering Ointments. 
 
 (1) Bromide of mercury, one pound. 
 Olive-oil, one pint. 
 
 Mix well, and add seven pounds of melted lard. 
 
 (2) Lard, four pounds. 
 Eesin, four pounds. 
 
 Powdered cantharides, one pound. 
 Mix thoroughly. 
 
 (3) Powdered cantharides, one part. 
 Venice turpentine, one part. 
 Eesin, one part. 
 
 Palm-oil or lard, four parts. 
 Mix well. 
 
 Blood-poisoning. 
 
 All decomposing material must be removed from the 
 wound, and the utmost cleanliness enjoined and prac- 
 tised. Locally, a solution of permanganate of potassium 
 of about five grains to the ounce of water should be 
 applied ; whilst internally one should give salicylate of 
 sodium, coupled with othsr germicidal agents, such as 
 sulphite of sodium, or with antifebrin, if the tempera- 
 ture be much elevated. Stimulants, such as brandy or 
 whisky, should also be given. 
 
 Bloody Flux, or Dysentery. 
 
 This is a disease in which there is inflammation of the 
 lining membrane of the bowels, and also ulceration, and 
 it may follow upon chronic diarrhoea. It may also arise 
 from coarse provender, especially if coupled with undue 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBE!*. 23 
 
 exposure to cold ; or it may be, perhaps, the result of 
 blood diseases or poisonous agents. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Ipecacuanha, half an ounce. 
 Powdered opium, two drachms. 
 Chalk, two ounces. 
 Powdered galls, two ounces. 
 This mixture may be given in a pint of warm water 
 thrice daily. 
 
 Blown. — See Tympanites. 
 
 Bowels, Inflammation of the. — See Enteritis. 
 
 If the patient be full-blooded, bleeding should be carried 
 out, and repeated in six hours' time if requisite. As much 
 as a gallon of blood may in severe cases be abstracted. 
 The belly should be stimulated by the application of rugs 
 wrung out from hot water and sprinkled with strong 
 liniment or with turpentine. Thin, warm gruel contain- 
 ing a little linseed-oil may be given. Careful nursing is 
 necessary. The impacted faeces may be removed from 
 the rectum manually, or by other means, and anodyne 
 and mucilaginous enemas may be advantageous. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of opium, two fluid ounces. 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 This draught may be repeated at intervals of three or 
 four hours. 
 
 Brain, Inflammation of the. 
 
 In severe cases the best course will be immediate 
 
24 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 slaughter ; but if it be decided to try treatment, first give 
 a powerful cathartic, and then — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Hydrate of chloral, three drachms. 
 Bromide of potassium, three drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 
 Blister, 
 
 Ointment of cantharides. See Counter-irritants. 
 This ointment is to be applied to the poll. 
 
 Braxy. — See Anthrax. 
 
 Bronchitis. 
 
 1. Acute. 
 
 (a) In early stage : The first thing to give is a 
 
 cathartic, and then — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Extract of belladonna, two drachms. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 
 (b) In later stage : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 
 Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two fluid 
 
 drachms. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 25 
 
 Counter-irritants or blisters may be applied locally. 
 See Counter-irritants. 
 
 2. Chronic. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 
 Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two fluid 
 
 drachms. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Bronchitis, Verminous ; or Husk or Hoose. 
 
 The draughts under Anaemia may be given. The cattle 
 should be removed to fresh pastures, and the food should 
 be good and plentiful. Contaminated fields should be 
 avoided, especially about July, August, and September, 
 in which months the disease is acquired ; and affected 
 animals should be separated from healthy ones. Rock- 
 salt should be provided. 
 
 The following plan may be tried in the case of sheep : 
 A small shed may be filled with the fumes arising from 
 burning sulphur, and the affected sheep made to pass 
 through, one after the other. Thus, for the few moments 
 occupied in walking in and out, the sheep will breathe 
 this potent gas, which will thus come into contact with 
 the worms contained in the bronchial tubes. They must 
 not be allowed to remain in for longer than a few moments, 
 lest they should be choked. It would be always best to 
 try how the plan answers with about half a dozen sheep 
 before extending it to the whole flock or herd. If it 
 seems to have been productive of good results, the treat- 
 ment may be repeated after a few days. 
 
26 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Oil of turpentine, one fluid ounce. 
 Linseed-oil, nine fluid ounces. 
 Give once or twice daily. 
 
 Intra-tracheal Injection. 
 Oil of turpentine, two fluid drachms. 
 Carbolic acid, twenty minims. 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid drachm. 
 Instead of the tincture of opium, half a drachm of 
 chloroform may be used {Penhale). 
 
 Fumigations. 
 
 1. The fumes of burning sulphur (dioxide of sulphur, 
 
 or anhydrous sulphurous acid). 
 
 2. The fumes of burning iodine. 
 
 3. Chlorine gas, generated by the action of sulphuric 
 
 acid on salt mixed with a little manganese 
 dioxide. 
 
 4. Nascent hydrochloric acid, generated by the 
 
 action of sulphuric acid on salt or on chloride 
 of calcium. 
 
 5. Carbolic acid in the form of vapour or spray. 
 
 Broncho-Pneumonia, Lobular or Catarrhal Inflammation of 
 the Lungs, or Capillary Bronchitis. 
 
 This malady results from an extension of bronchitis 
 into the pulmonary vesicles, and a serous effusion into 
 the interlobular tissue occurs, so that the lungs in an 
 acute case have a sodden look. 
 
 (a) In early stage : 
 
 Draught. 
 Extract of belladonna, two drachms. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 27 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid 
 ounces. 
 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 (b) In later stage : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 
 Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two fluid 
 
 drachms. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Counter-irritants. 
 
 Burns. 
 
 Local Application. 
 
 Solution of lime, one fluid part. 
 Olive-oil, one fluid part. 
 
 Bursal Enlargements. 
 
 Ointment. 
 
 Biniodide of mercury, one pound. 
 
 Olive-oil, one pint. 
 
 Mix well, and add seven pounds of melted lard. 
 
 Cachexia Ossifraga Malacia, or Cripple. 
 
 This disease, like fragilitas ossium, depends on mal- 
 nutrition of the bones. It may be due to a diminution of 
 animal constituents or to an excessive earthy deposit. 
 It is enzootic in certain districts, and affects milch-cows 
 more particularly, owing, no doubt, to the excessive 
 removal of phosphates by the milk. A deficiency of 
 
28 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 phosphates in the soil may occasion it, and this state of 
 things may be brought about by overstocking the land. 
 
 In this disease, then, the obvious indication is to supply 
 the animal with good and nutritious food, and to give 
 some such medicine as this : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Phosphate of lime, four drachms. 
 Sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Powdered gentian or calumba, sufficient to make 
 three ounces. 
 Give in a pint of water twice daily. 
 
 Carbuncle. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Powdered nux vomica, thirty grains. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, two drachms. 
 Carbonate of iron, two drachms. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water, gruel, or 
 beer. 
 
 Local Application. — See Antiseptics. 
 
 Carditis, or Inflammation of the Muscular Tissue of the 
 Heart. 
 
 This affection may accompany endocarditis or peri- 
 carditis. The muscular substance of the heart may also 
 be inflamed in the neighbourhood of a deposit of new 
 tissue or a seat of injury. 
 
 Catarrh (Flux from the Nostrils). 
 
 This condition is due to congestion, or more generally 
 to inflammation, of the Schneiderian membrane of the 
 nostrils, and as a rule the mucous membrane of the 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 29 
 
 nasal sinuses, pharynx and larynx, is also sooner or later 
 involved. It is more frequent in young beasts, and in the 
 spring, and sometimes it assumes an epizootic form, and 
 may then be called influenza. If not checked, the com- 
 plaint may lead to more serious complications, or rather 
 extensions, such as bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia, etc. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice or thrice daily. 
 
 Catarrh, Malignant. 
 
 This is a specific febrile disorder, but does not seem to 
 be in a marked degree contagious. The visible mucous 
 membranes are purple and dry, and in later stages 
 ulcerate. The eyelids are swollen, there is a painful 
 cough, and profuse discharge from nose, eyes and mouth, 
 which afterwards becomes purulent. There is extreme 
 prostration, and the animal dies asphyxiated, if a fatal 
 issue supervenes. 
 
 Draught. 
 Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 Salicine, one drachm. 
 Simple syrup, four fluid ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 
 Gargles. 
 (i.) Acid solution of nitrate of rnercury, thirty-six 
 minims. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
30 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 (ii.) Permanganate of potassium, twenty-four grains. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
 Cathartics. 
 
 In all animals the value of aperient medicines is very 
 great indeed. It may be said to be the most essential of 
 all medicinal measures to ensure that the bowels are 
 open. Especially in the case of oxen is this primary fact 
 never to be lost sight of, for it is of the very utmost im- 
 portance. In the case of all inflammations, except that 
 of the bowels themselves, a full cathartic dose should be 
 given. 
 
 (a) Mild : 
 
 (i.) Sulphate of magnesium, twelve to sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Give mixed in a pint of warm water, 
 (ii.) Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Powdered caraway seeds, half an ounce. 
 Mix with a pint of warm water, 
 (iii.) Castor-oil, two pints. 
 
 (b) Strong : 
 
 (i.) Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered aloes, eight drachms. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Mix and give with a pint of warm water or gruel, 
 (ii.) Castor-oil, two pints. 
 
 Croton-oil, half a fluid drachm, 
 (iii.) Gamboge, half an ounce. 
 Aloes, half an ounce. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Powdered croton bean, one drachm. 
 Mix, and give in a pint of warm water. 
 
 (c) Very strong : 
 
 Intravenous injection of sulphate of eserine. 
 
THE BOVINE FRESORIBER. 31 
 
 This powerful drag, in a dose of from one grain to one 
 grain and a half, dissolved in water, may be injected 
 intravenously in cases of very protracted constipation. 
 It is necessary to employ this remedy, only in extreme 
 constipation, with the utmost caution, and if the animal 
 should die, the flesh is not fit for human food. This, 
 then, is of itself a great obstacle to its use in cattle 
 practice. 
 
 Cattle Plague. 
 
 In the case of this virulent and most infectious disease, 
 which, fortunately, but very seldom makes its appearance 
 in the British Islands, owing to the preventive and 
 precautionary measures adopted by the Governments of 
 our own and foreign countries, treatment is not carried 
 out. As in the case of epizootic pleuro-pneumonia and 
 anthrax, the affected animals are killed and buried with 
 rigid antiseptic precautions, in accordance with the law. 
 Should this dreadful scourge again at any time break 
 out in England, it would be necessary to stamp it out at 
 once with a firm hand, so as to prevent it making any 
 headway. 
 
 Charbon. — See Anthrax. 
 
 This disease should also be stamped out at once by 
 slaughter of all affected animals, and immediate burial 
 of the carcases at a good depth and with rigid antiseptic 
 precautions. 
 
 Chine-Felon, or Lumbago. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, two drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Gentian and ginger, one ounce of each. 
 
32 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 These drugs may be mixed with a pint of warm water 
 and given twice daily. 
 
 Liniment. 
 
 Liniment of belladonna ) 
 
 n j r • j.f • equal parts. 
 
 Compound liniment of ammonia J 1 i 
 
 This liniment is to be well rubbed on the spine, 
 
 especially in the region of the kidneys. 
 
 Chronic Tympanites. 
 
 After a moderate purgative has been given, vegetable 
 tonics should be administered twice daily, e.g., 
 Carbonate of ammonium, half an ounce. 
 Gentian, two ounces. 
 Nux vomica, one drachm. 
 Ginger, one ounce. 
 These drugs may be given, mixed with three gills of 
 warm water or ale, twice daily for several days. 
 
 Cleansing Medicine. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, four drachms. 
 This draught may be given in two pints of warm 
 water, and repeated on the following day, if deemed 
 necessary. 
 
 (ii.) Solution of ammonia, four fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of turpentine, one fluid ounce. 
 Solution of aloes, to make eight fluid ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 33 
 
 Colchicum Poisoning. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Solution of ammonia, two fluid ounces. 
 
 Brandy or whisky, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given at intervals of four hours 
 for three or four times in a pint of gruel or mucilage of 
 linseed. 
 
 Colic. 
 
 (a) Flatulent : 
 
 A cathartic should first be given, and this should be 
 followed by — 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Solution of ammonia, one fluid ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give at intervals of four hours. 
 
 (ii.) Hyposulphite of sodium, four drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every four hours ; but with the first dose add 
 sixteen ounces of sulphate of magnesium. 
 
 (b) Simple: 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Oil of turpentine, half a fluid ounce. 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce and a half. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, two fluid ounces. 
 Give every three or four hours. 
 
 If the bowels be constipated, treatment should be com- 
 menced with a cathartic dose. In certain cases bicar- 
 bonate of potassium is a useful adjunct to the above 
 draught. 
 
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34 THE BOVINE PRESCRTBER. 
 
 Collapse. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Whisky, six fluid ounces. 
 Solution of ammonia, one fluid ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm gruel or water. 
 
 Condition Powder. 
 
 Fenugreek, seven parts. 
 Aniseeds, three parts. 
 Cumin-seeds, three parts. 
 Ginger, one part. 
 Carbonate of iron, one part. 
 Milk of sulphur, one part. 
 The dose of this mixture is from two to four ounces. 
 
 Congestion of the Kidneys. 
 
 This condition — precursory to nephritis as it often is 
 — results from some interference with the action of the 
 heart or the pulmonary circulation. It derives impor- 
 tance in so far as it signifies these conditions ; and hence 
 it is necessary to give attention to it. 
 
 Congestion of the Liver. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 
 Aloes, four drachms. 
 This draught should be mixed with a pint of warm 
 water and given, and it should be followed by the ad- 
 ministration twice daily of the following : 
 
 (ii.) Chloride of ammonium, four drachms. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, two fluid ounces. 
 This draught should be mixed in a pint of thin gruel, 
 and given twice daily. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 35 
 
 Congestion of the Lungs. 
 
 This condition precedes pneumonia, and is but seldom 
 recognised before the latter disease is established. 
 
 Conjunctivitis. 
 
 Lotion to be applied to parts around the eye. 
 Boric acid, three grains. 
 Tincture of opium, ten minims. 
 Water, one fluid ounce. 
 
 Lotion to be applied to the eyeball itself. 
 
 Sulphate of atropine, twelve grains. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
 Constipation. — See Cathartics. 
 
 Cooling Lotions. 
 
 (i.) Solution of subacetate of lead, one fluid part. 
 
 Tincture of arnica, one fluid part. 
 
 Water, eight fluid parts, 
 (ii.) Chloride of ammonium, two ounces. 
 
 Nitrate of potassium, two ounces. 
 
 Water, sixteen fluid ounces. 
 
 Cornea, Inflammation of the. 
 
 Lotion. 
 
 Sulphate of atropine, twenty-four grains. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 A few drops of this lotion should be placed in the 
 corner of the eye. 
 
 Cornea, Opacity of the. 
 
 This condition may be caused by pressure, occasioned 
 
36 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 by the contents of the globe of the eye, or by injuries, 
 or by ophthalmia, or by defective nutrition. A nebula is 
 a slight bluish imperfect opacity ; but if the opacity be 
 more perfect and defined, it is termed albugo. These 
 conditions may be alleviated by means of the application 
 of caustic agents, such as nitrate of silver or mitigated 
 caustic. 
 
 Cough. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Powdered digitalis, thirty grains. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, two fluid ounces. 
 Extract of belladonna, two drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Counter-irritants . 
 
 These are very useful to arrest or allay the process of 
 inflammation, and the stronger kinds may in some degree 
 even cause absorption of the products of previous in- 
 flammatory processes. 
 
 White Liniments. 
 (i.) Oil of turpentine, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Strong solution of ammonia, three fluid ounces. 
 Soft soap, four ounces. 
 Shake these well together, and then add, shaking at 
 intervals, water to make two quarts of liniment, 
 (ii.) Proof spirit, two pints. 
 
 Strong solution of ammonia, half a pint. 
 Soft soap, four ounces. 
 Camphor, one ounce. 
 The spirit will help one to powder and dissolve the 
 camphor. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 37 
 
 Acftic White Liniment. 
 
 Eggs, four. 
 
 icetic acid, four fluid ounces. 
 Solution of acetate of lead, four fluid ounces. 
 Oil of rosemary, half a fluid ounce. 
 Oil of turpentine, eight fluid ounces. 
 Water, to make two quarts in all. 
 
 Absorbent Liniment. 
 
 Acetic white liniment, eight fluid ounces. 
 Solution of iodide of potassium, two fluid ounces. 
 
 Compound Camphor Liniment. 
 
 Camphor, five ounces. 
 Oil of lavender, two fluid drachms. 
 Strong solution of ammonia, ten fluid ounces. 
 Methylated spirit, thirty fluid ounces. 
 Dissolve the oil and the camphor in the spirit, and 
 then add the ammonia gradually. 
 
 Mercurial Liniment (for enlarged glands). 
 
 Ointment of mercury, two ounces. 
 Camphor, one drachm. 
 Oil of tar, four fluid ounces. 
 Linseed-oil, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Blistering Liniment. 
 
 Powdered cantharides, one ounce. 
 Olive-oil, eight fluid ounces. 
 Digest these two ingredients over a hot bath. 
 
 Absorbent Blistering Liniment. 
 
 Iodine, one ounce and two drachms. 
 Iodide of potassium, four drachms. 
 
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 Camphor, two drachms. 
 Methylated spirit, ten fluid ounces. 
 Paint the part with this liniment by means of a brush. 
 
 Mustard Liniment. 
 
 Mustard, four ounces. 
 Oil of turpentine, five fluid ounces. 
 Digest for ten days, and then add a sufficiency of 
 linseed-oil. 
 
 Blistering Ointments. 
 
 (i.) Biniodide of mercury, one pound. 
 Olive-oil, one pint. 
 Mix thoroughly, and then add seven pounds of melted 
 lard. 
 
 (ii.) Lard, four pounds. 
 Eesin, four pounds. 
 Powdered cantharides, one pound, 
 (iii.) Powdered cantharides, one pound. 
 Venice turpentine, one pound. 
 Eesin, one pound. 
 Palm oil or lard, four pounds. 
 
 Cow-pox. 
 
 This disease generally lasts about seventeen and a half 
 days, but it may be protracted for about five weeks. For 
 vaccination purposes the vaccine is generally collected 
 at about the fifth day after the first appearance of the 
 pustule. The disease is not dangerous as a rule — at 
 least, in Western countries. The milk should not be used 
 for human food, so long as the cow is suffering from the 
 malady. Perfect cleanliness in all points, care in milk- 
 ing, and suitable treatment of any local affection, must 
 be well seen to. 
 
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 Cripple, or Fragility of the Bones. 
 
 This is a condition of bones in which they are liable 
 to break easily, and it results from a diminution of 
 animal constituents, or from an excess of the earthy 
 material, which last in either case preponderates so 
 much as to render the bones brittle. The disease is due 
 to atrophy of the osseous substance, the animal con- 
 stituents being, relatively to the inorganic constituents, 
 very largely increased. The disorder affects oxen, and 
 especially milch-cows, in certain localities. 
 
 Treatment. — The animal should be removed to a 
 different soil, and water should be used which contains 
 earthy salts in fair quantity. Good nutritious food is 
 essential, and that containing phosphates is especially 
 valuable. The salts of iron are valuable as tonics. The 
 sulphate or carbonate of iron is useful, but the citrate of 
 iron and ammonium is even better. The latter may be 
 given in two-drachm doses twice daily. Vegetable tonics 
 and the phosphate of calcium are also valuable. Soft 
 water seems bad for cows, especially milch-cows. 
 
 Cyanosis, or Blue Disease. 
 
 This malady is due to imperfect closure of the foramen 
 ovale. Moderate exertion may cause death, and animals 
 affected with the disease generally die young, or are killed. 
 
 Cystitis, or Inflammation of the Bladder. 
 
 The urine should be drawn off with a catheter, and 
 the warm sedative solutions, such as infusion of poppies, 
 may be injected into the bladder. Treatment should be 
 carried out with very great discretion, and should vary, 
 according as the inflammation be acute or chronic, and 
 as the animal be a male or a female. Warm or hot water 
 
40 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 should be applied to the abdomen. A great quantity of 
 simple watery gruel should be given, and nothing else. 
 
 Delayed Parturition. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Ergot, one ounce (or one fluid ounce of the liquid 
 
 extract of ergot). 
 Tonics, q.s. 
 Administer in a quart of warm beer. 
 
 Delirium. 
 
 It is often the best course, in order to ensure the 
 safety of human beings, to summarily shoot an ox suffer- 
 ing from delirium, before serious damage be done. 
 
 Depraved Appetite. 
 
 This condition may result from chronic indigestion, 
 and therefore needs the same treatment. 
 
 Derbyshire Neck or G-oitre. 
 
 This disease consists of an enlargement of the thyroid 
 gland, and the tendency to overgrowth of this structure 
 may be inherited. The treatment consists in taking the 
 animals from the district in which they have contracted 
 the disease, or by supplying rain-water, or water acted 
 upon by carbonate of sodium, which precipitates the 
 magnesium salt. The malady attacks both men and 
 animals in districts where the water-supply is obtained 
 from the magnesian limestone. 
 
 Diabetes Mellitus. 
 
 The food should be altered. Give sixteen ounces of 
 Glauber's salts dissolved in three gills of warm water, 
 
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 and take care that the bowels continue fairly active. 
 Codeia or morphia is most efficacious in this disease. 
 
 Diabetes Insipidus. 
 
 The same draughts should be given as those which are 
 prescribed for anaemia. However, it is to be remem- 
 bered that this disease is not often met with in the 
 bovine species. The diet should be nutritious, and 
 liberal in amount, and in the first instance laxatives 
 should be administered. 
 
 Diaphoretics. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Camphor, two drachms. 
 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm gruel. 
 
 Wet Pack. 
 This is a very efficient sudorific agent. 
 
 Diarrhoea, 
 (a) In adult cattle : 
 
 Draughts. 
 (i.) Powdered opium, two drachms. 
 Catechu, two drachms. 
 Galls, two drachms. 
 Prepared chalk, one ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm water twice daily, 
 (ii.) Catechu, two drachms. 
 Camphor, two drachms. 
 Powdered bael-fruit, two ounces. 
 Powdered opium, two drachms. 
 Mucilage of starch, one pint. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
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 (b) In calves : 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Pepsine, twenty grains. 
 
 Diluted hydrochloric acid, thirty minims. 
 Sulphate of cinchonine, seven and a half grains. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice or thrice daily in water or mucilage of 
 starch. 
 
 (ii.) Diluted sulphuric acid, thirty minims. 
 Tincture of catechu, two fluid drachms. 
 Spirit of chloroform, thirty minims. 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given thrice or four times daily, 
 in water or mucilage of starch. Salicylate of bismuth 
 in doses of two drachms is an excellent remedy, and so 
 is also salicylate of iron. 
 
 Diphtheria. 
 
 Very careful nursing is necessary, and liquid food. 
 The air-passages should be steamed with an antiseptic 
 inhalation, made by adding about a teaspoonful of oil of 
 eucalyptus to about a gallon of boiling water. A free 
 supply of water with chlorate of potassium added to it 
 (about a drachm to each half-bucketful), and a plentiful 
 supply of air, should also be available. Salicylic acid is 
 valuable, and the dose is about one drachm. Sulphite of 
 sodium is also of great value in doses of one drachm 
 given rather frequently. If there be danger of suffoca- 
 tion, tracheotomy must be performed. Vegetable tonics, 
 and, according to some persons, coffee, are to be used. 
 The sloughs in the mouth should be removed, and the 
 places left bare should be acted upon with the tincture 
 or the solution of perchloride of iron, or with some 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 43 
 
 caustic, or with a weak solution of perchloride of mercury 
 carefully applied. The attendants should be disinfected. 
 
 Disinfectants. 
 
 Those most usually employed are carbolic acid, iodine, 
 chloride of lime, chlorine gas, and sulphurous anhydride. 
 From a very long personal experience, we can recom- 
 mend the last as being at once so easy to use and so 
 efficacious, that it is difficult to find any more serviceable. 
 All that is necessary is to leave a tray containing burn- 
 ing coals in the room, and place sulphur on the top. 
 The one who carries this out should take care not to 
 inhale too large a quantity of the gas. The efficacy of 
 sulphur dioxide is well known in human medicine, and 
 we would especially mention swine fever of pigs, anthrax, 
 small-pox, scarlet-fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis as 
 being maladies in which its good effects might be more 
 extensively used. 
 
 Downfall of the Udder. — See Garget, p. 52. 
 
 Dropping the Cud, or Simple Indigestion. — See Indiges- 
 tion, p. 61. 
 
 Dropsy, or Ascites. — See p. 16. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Nitrate of potassium, two drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, four drachms. 
 Oil of juniper, one fluid drachm. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 The drenches under Anaemia are also good. 
 
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 Dysentery. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Ipecacuanha, three drachms. 
 Powdered opium, two drachms. 
 Chalk, two ounces. 
 Galls, two ounces. 
 Mix well, and give with a pint of warm water or gruel 
 thrice daily. 
 
 Dysuria. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Nitrate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Ecbolics. 
 
 (i.) Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 Give in warm water. 
 
 (ii.) Tincture of ergot, one fluid ounce, 
 (iii.) Liquid extract of ergot, one fluid ounce. 
 
 Eczema. 
 
 A number of vesicles appear on the skin in certain 
 parts, and the hair is denuded. Laxative medicine 
 should be employed, and the parts may be dressed with 
 suitable preparations containing lead and morphia. Good 
 food should be given, and strict cleanliness enjoined. 
 
 Eczema Contagiosa, or E. Epizobtica. — See Aphtha Epi- 
 zobtica, p. 12. 
 
 Ecthyma. 
 
 This disorder of the skin is rare among cattle. A 
 number of large, prominent, and isolated pustules appear. 
 
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 They burst, and produce a dark scab, which, on being 
 detached, leaves a brown stain. They frequently occur 
 on the udder. The treatment should be similar to that 
 employed for urticaria. 
 
 Application. 
 
 Ointment of boric acid. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, half an ounce. 
 Bicarbonate of sodium, half an ounce. 
 Nitrate of potassium, half an ounce. 
 Water, a sufficient quantity. 
 This draught may be given twice daily. 
 
 Emphysema. 
 
 As a rule oxen suffering from emphysema are killed. 
 If, however, the animals are to be treated, the same 
 remedies may be given as those mentioned under 
 Anaemia. — See p. 5. 
 
 Endocarditis, or Inflammation of the Lining Membrane of 
 the Cavities of the Heart. 
 It occurs principally as a complication of rheumatic 
 disease, and requires very careful treatment. Large 
 growths may be formed, and sudden death occur. The 
 best plan is to make the animal ready for slaughter. 
 
 Endocarditis of Chronic Bright's Disease is attributable to 
 the extra blood-pressure. 
 
 Enteritis. 
 
 Blood should be removed at once if the animal be full- 
 blooded, and, if necessary, in six hours' time the bleeding 
 should be repeated. Even as much as a gallon of blood 
 
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 has been abstracted in some cases. The belly should 
 be stimulated by rugs wrung out from hot water, 
 renewed at intervals, and by liniments. Great benefit 
 may accrue from doses of thin, warm gruel, containing a 
 little linseed-oil. Opium is most useful for allaying the 
 pain ; but aconite in suitable doses is, perhaps, better, if 
 the constipation be severe. Cathartics, if given, cause 
 great mischief. Most careful nursing is necessary. The 
 impacted faeces may be abstracted from the rectum 
 mechanically, by the hand or otherwise, and anodyne 
 and mucilaginous enemas may be very serviceable. The 
 animal may be allowed to assuage its thirst from a 
 supply of nitrated water placed by its side. — See p. 63. 
 
 Epilepsy, Megrims, or Staggers. 
 
 An ox seized with an epileptic fit is said to bellow, 
 froth at the mouth, and pass faeces and urine involun- 
 tarily. The convulsive movements soon cease, the animal 
 rises, and soon appears healthy again Slaughter seems 
 the best course. 
 
 Epistaxis. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Tincture of perchloride of iron, one and a half 
 fluid ounces. 
 
 Tincture of ergot, one fluid ounce. 
 
 Water, a sufficient quantity, 
 (ii.) Sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 
 Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 
 Water, a sufficient quantity. 
 
 Epulis. 
 
 A tumour weighing about one and a half ounces was 
 excised by Mr. J. B. Gresswell from a beast's gum on the 
 
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 inside of the mouth. Tincture of myrrh was used as an 
 after-dressing. The animal was a feeding bullock, and 
 the tumour had caused continual slavering and interfered 
 with the feeding. There was no return of the tumour. 
 
 Ergotized Grasses may possibly be injurious. 
 
 Errors in Diet should be avoided. 
 
 Erysipelas. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce 
 and a half. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every four hours for about five doses, 
 (ii.) Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 Chlorate of potassium, three drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given at intervals of six hours. 
 
 Erythema Chronica. 
 
 Treatment should be begun with a laxative, followed 
 by- 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Liquor arsenicalis, three fluid drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Water, a pint. 
 This draught may be given twice daily after food. 
 
 Erythema Mamillarum. 
 
 The calf should be taken away from the mother, and 
 boric acid ointment or lotion should be applied locally. 
 In the first place a laxative should be given. When the 
 
48 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 pain and the inflammation are considerable, apply one 
 of the subjoined ointments. 
 
 Ointments. 
 (i.) Extract of belladonna, one ounce. 
 Boric acid, two ounces. 
 Carbolic acid, half a fluid ounce. 
 Benzoated lard, thirteen ounces, 
 (ii.) Vaseline, six ounces ) ™. 
 
 Boric acid, one ounce) 
 (iii.) Vaseline, twenty-seven ounces) ■**. 
 Salicylic acid, one ounce i 
 
 Eye. 
 
 (a) Contractor of pupil of : 
 
 Lotion, 
 Sulphate or salicylate of eserine, nine grains. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
 (b) Dilator of pupil of : 
 
 Lotion. 
 Sulphate of atropine, eighteen grains. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
 Falling of the Womb. 
 
 Draught. 
 Tincture of opium, two fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given once or twice. The womb 
 itself should be cleansed with antiseptic lotion and re- 
 placed before the medicine is given. 
 
 Fatty Tumours. 
 
 These are generally seen near the shoulder, and often 
 
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 weigh as much as two to three stones. In the earlier 
 stages they should be removed with the knife ; but if the 
 size be very large, slaughter may be best. 
 
 Felon, Chine-, or Lumbago. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, two drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Ginger, one ounce. 
 Mix well with a pint of warm water, and give the 
 draught twice daily. 
 
 Liniment. 
 
 Liniment of aconite, four fluid ounces. 
 Compound liniment of ammonia, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Fever, Parturient. — See Parturient Septicemia. 
 
 Filaria. 
 
 The eyes of cattle are occasionally infested with the 
 Filaria lachrymalis and the Filaria papillosa, which last 
 is the common eye-worm of the horse, and has also been 
 found in the ox and ass. Only two cases of its occurrence 
 in the ox have been recorded. It is found in the globe 
 of the eye, usually in a cyst within the cornea, also in 
 the peritoneal and thoracic cavities, in the diaphragm 
 and abdominal muscles, and in the arachnoid membrane 
 of the brain. 
 
 Flatulent Colic. 
 
 First give a full aperient, then cause the animal to 
 walk a little up and down, rubbing the right side in the 
 intervals of repose. Enemas should be given, and manual 
 exploration of the rectum may be carried out. 
 
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 Draught. 
 
 Solution of ammonia, one fluid ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 
 Foot-and-Mouth Disease. — See Aphtha Epizobtica, p. 12. 
 
 Foreign Bodies in the Rumen, Reticulum, and Abomasum. 
 — See Bezoars, p. 18. 
 
 Foul in the Foot. 
 
 All the diseased horny tissue should be removed, 
 especially that near which matter has formed. The 
 foot, if necessary, should first be poulticed, in order to 
 facilitate the removal of the decayed parts by loosening 
 their attachment. Then the foot should be thoroughly 
 cleaned with the aid of a warm and strong antiseptic 
 lotion. A cathartic should be given, and finally the foot 
 should be dressed with one of the following prepara- 
 tions : 
 
 Ointments. 
 
 (i.) Carbolic acid, four fluid drachms. 
 
 Lard, four ounces, 
 (ii.) Boric acid, one ounce. 
 
 Lard or vaseline, seven ounces. 
 
 Poioder. 
 
 Sulphate of copper in fine powder, one ounce. 
 Alum, finely powdered, one ounce. 
 
 Local Application. 
 
 Nitrate of copper, one ounce. 
 Stockholm tar, six ounces. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 51 
 
 Founder. 
 
 This disease is not common among oxen. It is best to 
 give a cathartic, and cooling lotions may be used locally. 
 If there be any sign of fever, the following draught may 
 be administered thrice daily : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. to make six fluid ounces. 
 
 Fragilitas Ossium. — See p. 39. 
 
 Keinove the animal to a different soil, and give water 
 which contains earthy salts in fair quantity. Good 
 nutritious food is essential, and that containing phos- 
 phates is especially valuable. The citrate of iron and 
 ammonium may be given in two-drachm doses twice 
 daily. Vegetable tonics and the phosphate of calcium 
 are valuable. Soft water is bad for cows, especially 
 milch-cows. 
 
 Furunculus, or Boil. 
 
 Apply poultices or fomentations until the boil breaks, 
 and then treat with boric acid fomentation. 
 
 Gadfly of the Ox. — See CEstrus Bovis, for the same mix- 
 tures will protect from the gadfly as those which do so 
 from the warble -fly. 
 
 Gangrenous Stomatitis. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Liquefied carbolic acid, ten minims. 
 Chlorate of potassium, two drachms. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 Give four times daily. 
 
52 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Gargle. 
 
 Tincture of iodine, two fluid drachms. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 Use rather often. 
 
 The ulcers should be touched with nitrate of silver, or 
 should be painted with a mixture of one fluid part of 
 acid solution of nitrate of mercury added to twenty-four 
 fluid parts of water. Sanitation should be looked into. 
 
 Garget. 
 
 (a) In acute stage : 
 
 Draughts. 
 (i.) Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.*), forty minims. 
 Water, q.s. 
 This draught may be given every four hours for a day, 
 and then thrice daily, so long as the temperature be high. 
 
 (ii.) Nitrate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (Gresswell's V.P.), forty 
 minims. 
 This draught may be given every four hours for a day, 
 and then thrice daily, so long as the temperature be high. 
 The milk should be removed regularly, and linseed 
 poultices containing three drachms of extract of bella- 
 donna may be applied. 
 
 (b) In chronic induration : 
 Inject with a lotion made of : 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 * N.B. — In all cases where tincture of aconite is mentioned in this 
 book, that of the British Pharmacopoeia is meant. This is the same as 
 that of Gresswell's V.P. 
 
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 In later stage apply acetic liniment. See Counter- 
 irritants, p. 36. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Iodide of potassium, two drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Gastro- enteritis of Calves. 
 
 Alkalies should be given. If profuse diarrhoea comes 
 on, stimulant tonics and cordials are useful. Diminish 
 the milk allowed per day by one-half, giving linseed-gruel 
 in its place. 
 
 Glaucoma. 
 
 In the earlier stages an operation may be performed. 
 
 Glossanthrax. 
 
 Treatment is of but little use in this disease, and, 
 indeed, it is best not to try to cure, but to kill, and bury 
 the carcase. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Salicylate of sodium, two drachms. 
 Sulphite of sodium, two drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give four times daily. 
 
 Gargle. 
 Acid solution of nitrate of mercury, one fluid drachm. 
 Water, six fluid ounces. 
 
 Glossitis. 
 
 Commence with the administration of sixteen ounces 
 of sulphate of magnesium, or of sulphate of sodium and 
 then give : 
 
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 Draught. 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 
 This draught may be given four times daily. The 
 animal should be allowed as much gruel as will be taken, 
 and if the power of swallowing be absent, nutritive 
 enemata should be had recourse to. In the later stages, 
 and during recovery and convalescence, give : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Gentian, one ounce and a half. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water or gruel. 
 
 Goitre. 
 
 A disease which occurs where the water is obtained 
 from the magnesian limestone. It is known as Derby- 
 shire neck, and occurs also in Switzerland and else- 
 where, and in man, sheep, and oxen. The thyroid gland 
 is enlarged. The animals should be taken from the 
 district where they have contracted the disease, and rain- 
 water, or water acted upon by carbonate of sodium, 
 which precipitates the magnesium salt, should be 
 supplied. 
 
 Gonorrhoea. 
 
 Commence treatment with a cathartic, then give one 
 of the following draughts, and also use the injection. 
 It should be borne in mind that this disease is highly 
 contagious, and in cleaning away the pus, one should be 
 careful not to get any of it near one's eyes or elsewhere. 
 
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 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Balsam of copaiva, four ounces. 
 Castor-oil, four fluid ounces. 
 Give twice or thrice daily. 
 
 (ii.) Sandal-wood-oil, half a fluid ounce. 
 Linseed-oil, six fluid ounces. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Injections. 
 
 (i.) Sulpho-carbolate of zinc, half a drachm. 
 
 Water, eight fluid ounces, 
 (ii.) Permanganate of potassium, five grains. 
 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Gutta Serena, or Glass-eye. 
 
 This disease may be the result of an injury to, or 
 disease of, the brain. It is characterized by a loss of 
 nerve-power, the retina not being able to receive, and the 
 optic nerve not able to transmit, the impression of the 
 image of an object. 
 
 Hair-balls. 
 
 These are produced by the cattle licking themselves or 
 one another, thus swallowing, perhaps, a great deal of 
 hair. Though the balls are of rather large size, they are 
 light in weight. They may be present in very young 
 animals, and may even be found in the abomasum, or 
 fourth stomach. 
 
 Hsematopinus Vituli (of the calf) and H. eurysternus (of 
 cattle), together with the Trichodectes scalaris, are 
 the lice of the ox. 
 
 Hsematuria, or Blood in the Water. — See also Red water. 
 Since this affection is the result of different conditions, 
 
56 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 being, in fact, a symptom of many different diseases, the 
 treatment must vary. In the first place, a laxative 
 should be given, e.g., sixteen fluid ounces of castor-oil or 
 sixteen ounces of Epsom salts. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 (ii.) Acetate of lead, one drachm. 
 Galls, two ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 
 Give twice daily. — 
 
 (iii.) Extract of taraxacum, four ounces. 
 Carbonate of iron, three drachms. 
 Mix in a pint of water, and give twice daily. 
 
 Hemoglobinuria. 
 
 Firstly, administer a cathartic. Nurse carefully, and 
 change the diet to soft food. 
 
 Draught. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, three drachms. 
 Chlorate of potassium, three drachms. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 Give thrice daily in a pint of gruel. 
 Thompson (of Aspatria) has found that a top-dressing 
 of five or six per cent, per acre of rock salt is an effectual 
 preventive of this disorder. Perhaps the salt kills the 
 germs. 
 
 Haemoptysis, or Bleeding from the Lungs. 
 
 This may be due to acute pulmonary congestion or to 
 
BOVINE PRESCRLBER. 
 
 laceration of the lung-tissue, and in some cases to disease 
 of the heart. By far the most frequent cause, however, 
 is tuberculosis. In the case of cattle it is, as a rule, best 
 to slaughter an animal afflicted with this malady before 
 the disease has had time to progress further. — See 
 Bleeding, p. 20. 
 
 Haemorrhage. — See Bleeding, p. 20. 
 
 Haemorrhoids, or Piles. 
 
 Begin with a cathartic, and repeat it, if necessary. 
 Then give — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Extract of taraxacum, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Chloride of ammonium, one ounce. 
 
 Solution of aloes (of the strength of one drachm to 
 
 the fluid ounce), six fluid ounces. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Give once daily in a pint of warm water. 
 
 Local Applications. 
 
 (a) Ointment or tincture of hamamelis. 
 (6) Alum, four drachms. 
 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Surgical Measures. 
 It may be necessary to remove the tumours with the 
 cautery or the ecraseur. 
 
 For Bleeding Piles. 
 Oil of turpentine, one fluid ounce. 
 Fluid extract of ergot, half a fluid ounce. 
 Linseed-oil, four and a half fluid ounces. 
 
 Heart. — See Carditis, p. 28. 
 
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 Heel, Ulceration of the. 
 
 Ointment. 
 
 Sulphate of copper, one drachm. 
 Lard or vaseline, one ounce. 
 Apply twice daily ; but sometimes it is best to remove 
 the granulations by cauterization. 
 
 Hemiplegia and Paraplegia. 
 
 (a) Acute : 
 
 If the paralysis be due to a tumour or a fracture, 
 slaughter is to be recommended. If it be due 
 to inflammation of the spinal cord (myelitis), 
 the spine may be blistered with ointment of red 
 iodide of mercury, and tonics given. 
 
 (b) Chronic : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two fluid 
 
 drachms. 
 Spirit of chloroform, four fluid drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Hepatitis, or Inflammation of the Liver, and Congestion 
 
 of that Organ. 
 
 The diet should be spare and laxative. 
 
 Laxative Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of sodium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Caraway seeds, one ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm water, and if necessary repeat 
 on the next day. Instead of this draught, one drachm 
 of calomel may be given, and followed for several days 
 by half-drachm doses. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 59 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.). fort Y minims. 
 Chloride of ammonium, six drachms. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily, and when the febrile symptoms are 
 gone, leave off the aconite. 
 
 Herpes Circinatus. 
 
 Vesicles not unlike those of eczema, but larger, appear 
 in cases of this complaint, and arrange themselves in a 
 gradually widening circle. 
 
 Hide-bound. 
 
 Begin with a laxative. Draughts and -powders same as 
 those given under Anaemia, p. 5. 
 
 Holz-zunge, or Actinomycosis, to which refer, p. 2. 
 
 Hoven. — See Tympanites. 
 
 Hydrocele. 
 
 Draught. 
 Solution of hydrate of potassium, half a fluid ounce. 
 Iodide of potassium, two drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give in the drinking-water twice daily. 
 
 Local Application. 
 Tincture of iodine. 
 
 Surgical Measures. 
 Hydrothorax.— See Pleurisy, later stage. 
 
60 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 Impaction of the Rumen. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Aloes, eight drachms. 
 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 
 Powdered croton bean, one drachm. 
 Give in a pint of warm water. If the bowels do not 
 act, two pints of castor-oil may be given on the next day. 
 If no movement of the bowels can be elicited by other 
 means, then resource may finally be had to the intra- 
 venous injection of sulphate of eserine (one grain in 
 solution). See Cathartics, p. 30. 
 
 Imperforate Anus (in Calves). 
 
 The best plan is generally to divide the membrane by 
 means of two crucial incisions. If, however, the intestine 
 ends blindly, an attempt may be made to reach the blind 
 end and open it, and then to sew the edges of the opened 
 end to the edges of the cutaneous incision. 
 
 Impetigo Labialis. 
 
 An eruption of pustules may appear, and beneath them 
 there is a severe inflammation. The pasture should be 
 changed, and a suitable ointment applied. A cathartic 
 medicine may be useful. 
 
 Incontinence of Urine. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Bicarbonate of sodium, one ounce. 
 Powdered nux vomica, thirty grains. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water. 
 
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 (ii.) Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two 
 fluid drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Indigestion. 
 
 This complaint may be due to an excess of acidity in 
 the stomach, or it may be occasioned by a diminution of 
 acidity. In the former case draught i. will be required, 
 and this will be much more frequently serviceable ; and 
 in the latter case draught ii., which will be but seldom 
 required. Treatment should be commenced with a 
 cathartic, and this is to be followed by : 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Bicarbonate of sodium, two ounces. 
 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce (or chloro- 
 
 dyne, six fluid drachms). 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Bromide of potassium, three drachms. 
 Give in a pint of warm water twice daily. 
 
 (ii.) Diluted hydrochloric acid, two fluid drachms. 
 Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, one 
 
 fluid drachm. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Inertia of the Uterus (Delayed Parturition). 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, four drachms. 
 
62 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBE!*. 
 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Give in a quart of warm beer. 
 
 Infectious Diseases, Prevention of the. 
 
 It is not possible to absolutely stamp out all the infec- 
 tious diseases of animals, but it is nothing less than 
 marvellous how much has been effected in this respect 
 by recent research and the thorough carrying out of 
 hygienic measures. Much still remains to be done ; but, 
 in view of the immense strides which have been made in 
 the last century, we may be able to anticipate a far 
 greater degree of success than has yet been achieved. 
 The infectious diseases of animals are important, not only 
 in themselves, but also because some at least of them 
 are communicable to mankind. The germ theory has 
 simplified the whole aspect of medicine and surgery so 
 much that, by the help of the many clever and skilled 
 workers in England and abroad, we may hope for still 
 more startling discoveries in the near future. It is said 
 that ' Prevention is better than cure,' and it is unques- 
 tionably true that, as our sanitary measures become 
 more and more perfect, there will be less and less disease 
 both amongst ourselves and the animals which we have 
 domesticated. 
 
 Inflammation of the Bladder, Bowels, Brain, Bronchi, 
 Conjunctiva, Cornea, Heart, Kidneys, Liver, Lungs, 
 Udder. 
 
 (a) Bladder (Cystitis) (see p. 39) : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid ounce. 
 
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 Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 
 (b) Bowels (Enteritis) (see p. 45) : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of opium, two fluid ounces. 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 Repeat at intervals of three or four hours, if necessary. 
 
 (c) Bronchi (Bronchitis) (see p. 24) : 
 
 Draught. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two fluid 
 
 drachms. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 (d) Brain (Encephalitis, including both Meningitis and 
 Cerebritis). 
 
 This disease is less frequent than formerly, and 
 this greater exemption is no doubt due to greater 
 care and less over- driving. A mad cow or bull is a very 
 dangerous animal, and therefore it will often be best to 
 shoot the creature. If treatment be decided upon, blood- 
 letting should first be carried out, and a strong cathartic 
 given, preferably croton-oil (about forty minims, or even 
 one drachm), on account of the small bulk required. 
 Subcutaneous injection of hydrocyanic acid may also be 
 useful. Slaughter is the best course as a rule ; but 
 exceptional cases may occur. 
 
64 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 Draught. 
 Hydrate of chloral, three drachms. 
 Bromide of potassium, three drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 
 Blister. 
 Ointment of catharides may be applied to the poll ; 
 but some persons might prefer an ice-bag. The form for 
 the ointment is : 
 
 Ointment. 
 Powdered catharides \ 
 Venice turpentine I equal parts. 
 Eesin j 
 
 Palm-oil or lard, four parts. 
 
 (e) Conjunctiva (Conjunctivitis) : 
 
 Lotion (to parts around the eye). 
 
 Boric acid, twenty-five grains. 
 
 Tincture of opium, one fluid drachm and a half. 
 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Lotion (to the eyeball itself). 
 
 Sulphate of atropine, sixteen grains. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 (/) Cornea (Corneitis) : 
 
 A few drops of the lotion immediately preceding may 
 be placed in the corner of the eye. 
 
 (g) Kidneys (Nephritis) : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Water, q.s. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 65 
 
 Give thrice daily. A cathartic should be given, and 
 warm enemas may be useful. Bleeding is sometimes 
 beneficial, when the animal is full-blooded. A sheep- 
 skin or some warm covering should be placed over the 
 loins. 
 
 (h) Liver (Hepatitis). 
 
 The diet should be laxative and spare. Commence 
 treatment either with an ordinary cathartic, such as 
 sixteen ounces of Epsom salts coupled with half an ounce 
 of ginger in a pint of warm water, and, if need be, 
 repeat this draught on the following day, or else give 
 one drachm of calomel and then a half-drachm of the 
 same daily for several days, or else begin with the Epsom 
 salts, and then go on with half-drachni doses of calomel. 
 In addition to this give the 
 
 Draught. 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Chloride of ammonium, six drachms. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give this draught thrice daily, so long as febrile symp- 
 toms continue to be manifested ; but when they have 
 disappeared, omit the aconite at once. Finally, follow 
 up with tonics, for which see Anaemia, p. 5. 
 
 (/) Lungs (Pneumonia) (see p. 72 and 85) : 
 Draught. 
 Tincture of aconite, forty minims. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every six hours. 
 
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66 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 Counter-irritants. (See that heading, p. 36.) 
 These should be at once and thoroughly applied to the 
 outside of the chest. A good plan is to apply rugs wrung 
 out from very hot water round the chest, after it has 
 been first well rubbed with a strong embrocation. These 
 should be protected by an oil-cloth sheeting, so as to 
 keep them hot. They should be renewed, when getting 
 rather colder. 
 
 (j) Udder (Mammitis) (see Garget, p. 52) : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Nitrate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Give every four hours for one day, and then thrice 
 daily, whilst the temperature is high. The milk should 
 be drawn off regularly, and linseed poultices containing 
 three drachms of extract of belladonna be applied to the 
 udder. If the disease has become chronic, inject with a 
 lotion made of one ounce of bicarbonate of potassium 
 dissolved in eight fluid ounces of water, and in a later 
 stage apply acetic liniment and give — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Iodide of potassium, two and a half drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Injuries and Obstructions in the Teats. 
 
 There may be tumours or lacteal calculi, or warts at 
 the end of a teat. These may be removed by a ligature 
 of fine silk, which causes the warts to slough off. Sore 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 67 
 
 or chapped teats are best treated with ointment of 
 turpentine. 
 
 Jaundice. 
 
 Contrary to the commonly-received opinion, jaundice 
 is not a disease, but merely a symptom of different dis- 
 orders which interfere with the due action of the liver, or 
 rather with the bile-forming function, and the normal 
 discharge of that secretion into the duodenum. Hence 
 the treatment of this condition must vary with the causes. 
 Of course the food must be carefully regulated, and 
 should be restricted in amount, of a laxative and easily 
 digestible nature. In the first place, it is best to com- 
 mence treatment with the administration of a cathartic. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered aloes, one ounce. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Mix well, and give in a pint of warm gruel. 
 After this has been given, and, if necessary, repeated in 
 a day or two, some would recommend the administration 
 of half-drachm daily doses of calomel for a few days ; but 
 perhaps a better plan is to give — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Chloride of ammonium, four drachms. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Ginger, four drachms. 
 Give in a pint of warm water twice daily. 
 In cases of chronic jaundice due to torpidity of the 
 liver give : 
 
6S THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Draught. 
 Diluted nitro-hydrochloric acid, three fluid drachms. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Tincture of euonymin, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Kidneys, Inflammation of the (Nephritis). 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 
 "Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily, leaving off the aconite, so soon as the 
 fever is reduced. At the outset a cathartic should be 
 exhibited. Warm enemas may be useful, and a sheep- 
 skin or other warm covering should be placed over the 
 loins. In full-blooded animals, bleeding is advisable. In 
 certain cases, especially if the disorder be supposed to 
 depend on some germ-disease, salicylate of sodium is an 
 invaluable adjunct to treatment. 
 
 Laburnum Poisoning. 
 
 Draught. 
 Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 Powdered aloes, one ounce. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm gruel. 
 
 Laminitis. 
 
 This disease is not very frequently met with in cattle. 
 If a case occur, give a cathartic, order the animal to be 
 rested, and to have cold-water applications to the feet. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 69 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 
 Salicylate of sodium, two drachms. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, two drachms. 
 Give in a pint of gruel twice daily, leaving out the 
 aconite after the first day or two — i.e., when the fever is 
 abated. 
 
 Laryngitis. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Tincture of belladonna, six fluid drachms. 
 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid 
 
 ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give thrice daily. 
 
 In addition to this draught, inhalation of carbolized 
 steam (vapour from boiling water to which carbolic acid 
 and oil of eucalyptus have been added) and the applica- 
 tion of a strong embrocation to the throat are also 
 necessary. Nutrient enemata should be given in some 
 cases (but very seldom is this requisite) if the animal 
 cannot take sufficient food by the mouth, 
 (ii.) Tonic powder, three ounces. 
 
 Iodide of potassium, two drachms. 
 Iodine, half a drachm. 
 Give this in a pint of warm ale twice daily. 
 
 Liniments. 
 
 Liniment of cantharides, or that of mustard, or that of 
 ammonia should be applied to the throat. See Counter- 
 irritants, p. 36. 
 
70 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Gargles. 
 
 (i.) Tincture of iodine, one ounce. 
 
 Water, one pint, 
 (ii.) Iodine, twenty grains. 
 
 Eectified spirit, one fluid ounce. 
 Throw some of this solution on to the back of the 
 tongue by means of a tablespoon (D. G.). 
 
 Lead Poisoning. 
 
 A good dose of Epsom salts (sixteen ounces) is the 
 best remedy to start with, and this should be followed 
 up with — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tonic powder, three ounces. 
 Iodide of potassium, two drachms. 
 Iodine, half a drachm. 
 Give in a pint of warm ale twice daily. 
 
 Leucorrhcea. 
 
 Commence with a cathartic, and then give — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Gentian, one and a half ounces. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Granulated sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Powdered nux vomica, forty grains. 
 Powdered capsicum, half a drachm. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm ale or gruel. 
 
 Injections. 
 
 (i.) Sulpho-carbolate of zinc, forty grains. 
 Water, one pint. 
 
THE BOVINE PKESCRIBER. 71 
 
 (ii.) Permanganate of potassium, forty grains. 
 
 Water, one pint, 
 (iii.) Alum, ten drachms. 
 
 Decoction of oak bark, one pint. 
 Nitrate of silver or the mitigated caustic may be 
 applied to any ulcerated patches which may be present. 
 
 Lice (Phtheiriasis). 
 
 Ointment. 
 
 White precipitate of mercury, one part. 
 Lard or vaseline, twelve parts. 
 
 Lotions. 
 (i.) Stavesacre seeds, half an ounce. 
 
 Soft soap, two ounces. 
 The bruised stavesacre seeds should be boiled together 
 with the soft soap in a pint and a half of water, until 
 about one pint only is left. 
 
 (ii.) Creasote, three fluid drachms. 
 
 Methylated spirit, two fluid ounces. 
 Tobacco, four drachms. 
 Hot water, one pint, 
 (iii.) Liquor carbonis detergens, two fluid ounces. 
 
 Water, eighteen fluid ounces, 
 (iv.) Solution of perchloride of mercury in the propor- 
 tion of one part of the salt to about from 500 
 to 800 fluid parts of water. This is very 
 poisonous and very efficacious. Great care 
 must be taken with this preparation. 
 
 Liniments. — See Counter-irritants, p. 36. 
 
 Liver, Inflammation of the. — See Hepatitis, and also 
 Inflammation, p. 58 and p. 65. 
 
 Loodianah Disease. — See Anthrax, p. 7. 
 
72 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 Locked Jaw (Tetanus). 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bromide of potassium, four drachms. 
 Anise fruit, four drachms. 
 Give in warm gruel thrice daily. 
 
 Lung Disease (Epidemic). 
 
 Occurring in calves of about six months old. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Iodine, two grains. 
 Iodide of potassium, four grains. 
 Sulphurous acid, twenty minims. 
 Sulphate of sodium, one ounce. 
 Sugar, one ounce. 
 Mix and add six fluid ounces of water, and give as one 
 dose. 
 
 Lungs, Inflammation of the. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Extract of belladonna, one drachm. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of nitrous ether, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every six hours, but leave out the aconite after a 
 time. 
 
 Counter-irritants. (See Counter-irritants, p. 36.) 
 
 A great deal depends upon the general management. 
 The animal requires air, but there should be no draughts. 
 Thorough ventilation may be effected by means of Tobin's 
 tubes. Hot rugs should be applied to the chest. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 73 
 
 Malignant Catarrh, or Malignant Catarrhal Fever. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Salicylic acid, three drachms. 
 Tincture of cinchona, two fluid ounces. 
 Whisky, four fluid ounces. 
 
 Give in a pint of warm gruel at intervals of five hours. 
 The ulcerations, which appear in the later stage, may be 
 touched with — 
 
 Local application. 
 
 Carbolic acid, one ounce. 
 Linseed-oil, ten fluid ounces. 
 
 The animal should be made to inhale carbolized and 
 eucalyptus steam. The diet should be nutritious and 
 laxative, and during convalescence (if the animal recover) 
 tonics will be required. The disease is generally fatal. 
 
 Malignant Pustule. — See Anthrax, p. 7. 
 
 Mammitis, or Garget, or Inflammation of the Udder. — See 
 Inflammation, p. 52 and p. 66. 
 
 Mange. See p. 1. 
 
 Ointment. 
 
 Sulphur, one ounce. 
 Oil of stavesacre, one fluid drachm. 
 Ammonio-chloride of mercury, one drachm. 
 Lard or vaseline, two ounces. 
 
 The application should be efficiently used, and for a 
 sufficiently long time. 
 
 Meadow Saffron, or Autumn Crocus (Colchicum autumnale). 
 This plant is in full bloom in June and July, and is an 
 
74 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 active poison, and therefore highly dangerous to horses 
 and cattle. As a rule, however, when oxen have par- 
 taken of it in small amount only, they experience so 
 much discomfort that they do not indulge in it again. 
 
 Mercury. 
 
 The great point to be borne in mind about the use of 
 the potent salts of this element is that great caution is 
 necessary. This remark applies, of course, to all strong 
 medicaments, but especially to the more poisonous com- 
 pounds of mercury. 
 
 Metro-Peritonitis, or Puerperal Peritonitis. 
 
 Begin with a mild cathartic, and follow with — 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Powdered opium, two drachms. 
 Salicylic acid, two drachms. 
 Whisky, six fluid ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give at intervals of six hours. 
 
 (ii.) Salicylate of sodium, four drachms. 
 
 Tincture of opium, one and a half fluid ounces. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid 
 
 ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give at intervals of four hours. 
 
 Injection. 
 
 Carbolic acid, half a fluid drachm. 
 Water, ten fluid ounces. 
 
 Milk Fever. — See Apoplexy, Parturient, p. 13. 
 
 Miltz-brand Fieber. — See Anthrax, p. 7. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 75 
 
 Muir-Ill. — Sec Hematuria, p. 55. 
 
 Myelitis, or Inflammation of the Nervous Structure of 
 the Spinal Cord, is not frequently met with in the 
 case of the ox. 
 
 Nsevus. 
 
 This is a swelling or tumour composed of hlood-vessels, 
 with some hypertrophy of the superficial layer of the 
 dermis. 
 
 Nephritis.— See Kidneys, Inflammation of, p. 64. 
 
 Nervous Debility in Cows at the Time of Parturition. 
 
 Enemas must be given. The surface of the body must 
 be kept warm, and the strength of the patient sustained. 
 Stimulating liniments should be rubbed along the back. 
 
 CEstrus Bovis. 
 
 In order to destroy this parasite, it is only necessary 
 to use a small quantity of the ointment of mercury. A 
 portion of the size of a pea will suffice for this purpose. 
 Mercurial ointment is the best to use, but ointment of 
 sulphur or of carbolic acid may be tried, if they happen 
 to be nearer to hand. 
 
 Ointments. 
 
 (a) Ointment of boric acid : 
 
 Boric acid, one part. 
 Vaseline or lard, six parts. 
 
 (b) Ointment of carbolic acid : 
 
 Carbolic acid, one part. 
 Soft paraffin, twelve parts. 
 Hard paraffin, six parts. 
 
 (c) Compound ointment of carbolic acid : 
 
 Benzoated lard, eight ounces. 
 Beeswax, one and a half ounces. 
 
76 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Olive-oil, one and a half ounces. 
 Carbolic acid, three fluid drachms. 
 Oil of eucalyptus, six fluid drachms. 
 Iodoform, three drachms. 
 Melt the lard and wax, and add the other ingredients, 
 stirring until the mass cools. 
 
 (d) Ointment of salicylic acid : 
 
 Salicylic acid, one part. 
 
 Vaseline or lard twenty-seven parts. 
 
 (e) Ointment of aconite : 
 
 Extract of aconite, two ounces. 
 Prepared lard, four ounces. 
 (/) Ointment of belladonna : 
 
 Alcoholic extract of belladonna, one part. 
 Benzoated lard, nine parts. 
 (g) Ointment of cantharides : 
 
 Melt together over a fire in a saucepan — 
 Lard, four pounds. 
 Eesin, four pounds. 
 Turpentine, four fluid ounces. 
 Oleum succini, four fluid ounces. 
 Mix together with the utmost care (because an ex- 
 plosion may occur if the two be added without), and 
 gradually, two fluid drachms of sulphuric acid and two 
 fluid ounces of distilled water, and add the fluid mixture 
 thus formed to the above mixture. Finally, add one 
 pound of finely-powdered cantharides, and stir thoroughly 
 until the mass cools. 
 
 (h) Ointment of mercury : 
 
 Rub together until the metal is invisible — 
 Mercury, sixteen parts. 
 Prepared lard, sixteen parts. 
 Prepared suet, one part. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 77 
 
 (i) Ointment of ammoniated mercury : 
 Mix thoroughly — 
 
 Ammoniated mercury, one part. 
 
 Simple ointment, or lard or vaseline, nine parts. 
 
 (j) Ointment of nitrate of mercury (Unguentum 
 citrinuin) : 
 
 Mercury, by weight, four ounces. 
 Nitric acid, twelve fluid ounces. 
 Prepared lard, fifteen ounces. 
 Olive-oil, thirty-two fluid ounces. 
 Dissolve the mercury in the nitric acid by the aid of 
 gentle heat. Melt the lard in the oil by a steam- or 
 water -bath, and then add the solution of mercury 
 elevated to about the same temperature (100° C), mixing 
 thoroughly. Increase the heat until the mixture froths 
 up, and then stir until the ointment is cold. 
 
 (k) Compound ointment of iodine : 
 Iodine, four drachms. 
 Iodide of potassium, four drachms. 
 Glycerine, two fluid drachms 
 Prepared lard, ten ounces. 
 Kub the iodine and the iodide of potassium, together 
 with the glycerine, in a mortar, add the lard gradually, 
 and mix. 
 
 (/) Ointment of sulphur : Mix — 
 Sublimed sulphur, one part. 
 Benzoated lard, four parts. 
 
 (m) Ointment of oxide of zinc : 
 
 Melt five parts of benzoated lard at a low tem- 
 perature, and add one part of oxide of zinc, 
 and stir until the ointment cools. 
 
78 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Ophthalmia, Simple. 
 
 Lotions. 
 (i.) For eyeball : 
 
 Sulphate of atropine, sixteen grains. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces, 
 (ii.) For parts around the eye : 
 
 Boric acid, twenty-four grains. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Ophthalmia, Periodic. 
 
 Oxen affected with this malady are generally killed. A 
 seton or a blister may be applied behind the ear (if the 
 case be treated), and the following given : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Powdered cinchona, one ounce. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water. 
 
 Lotion. 
 Sulphate of atropine, half a drachm. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Palpitation. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Carbonate of ammonium, two drachms. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Bicarbonate of sodium, one ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 (ii.) Sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Digitalis, thirty grains. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water. 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 79 
 
 Parturient Apoplexy. — See Apoplexy, Parturient, p. 13. 
 
 Parturient Septicaemia, or Parturient Fever. 
 
 This disease must not be confounded with Parturient 
 Apoplexy. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Salicylate of sodium, two drachms. 
 Brandy, four fluid ounces. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, three drachms. 
 Give in gruel at intervals of four hours. 
 
 (ii.) Sulphate of quinine, one drachm and a half. 
 Diluted sulphuric acid, four fluid drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every three or four hours. 
 
 Injection. 
 
 Carbolic acid, two fluid drachms. 
 Water, ten fluid ounces. 
 
 Parturition, Delay of. 
 
 Mix one ounce of ergot, or one fluid ounce of the liquid 
 extract of ergot, with a sufficient quantity of tonics, in a 
 quart of warm beer, and administer the draught. 
 
 Pediculi. — See Lice, p. 71. 
 
 Ointment. 
 
 White precipitate of mercury, one part. 
 Lard, twelve parts. 
 
 Lotion. 
 
 Creasote, three fluid drachms. 
 Methylated spirit, two fluid ounces. 
 Water, to make half a pint. 
 
80 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Pemphigus. 
 
 In the treatment of this affection of the skin, which is 
 characterized by the appearance of bladders up to the 
 size of a hen's egg, gentle purgatives and afterwards 
 alkalies are to be recommended. The bladders should be 
 opened, and starch or the ointment of oxide of zinc 
 applied. 
 
 Pericarditis, or Inflammation of the Pericardium. 
 
 It may be advisable to kill at once, or to cure first, and 
 then to fatten and kill. 
 
 A. Idiopathic : — 
 
 (a) In early stage : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Spirit of chloroform, six fluid drachms. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid 
 
 ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every six hours about three times. 
 
 Local Apijlication. 
 
 The left side of the animal in the region of the 
 heart may be blistered with ointment of 
 cantharides. The hot wet pack is useful. 
 
 (b) In later stages : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 Carbonate of iron, three drachms. 
 Give in water twice daily. 
 
 B. Traumatic : — 
 
 This form is generally fatal. 
 
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 Peritonitis, or Inflammation of the Peritoneum. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of opium, two fluid ounces. 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), forty minims. 
 Spirit of chloroform, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give every six hours. 
 
 Peritonitis, Puerperal. — See Metro-Peritonitis, p. 74. 
 
 Phtheiriasis, or Lousiness. 
 
 There are several different kinds of lice which affect 
 oxen. If the skin be washed with an infusion of tobacco, 
 the lice may gradually be poisoned. Before each dressing, 
 the skin should be well washed. A very useful prepara- 
 tion may be made by boiling stavesacre-seeds with soft 
 soap and water, or by taking five ounces of stavesacre- 
 seeds, and boiling in a gallon of water until only about 
 two quarts remain. A well-diluted solution of corrosive 
 sublimate is very efficacious ; but care must be taken in 
 using this application, as it is a very poisonous agent. 
 
 Phthisis Pulmonalis. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Cod-liver oil, ten fluid ounces. 
 In cases where treatment is tried, give half a pint of 
 cod-liver oil twice daily for several days, and then once 
 daily. 
 
 Piles. — See Haemorrhoids, p. 57. 
 
 These are tumours situated near the anus, and caused 
 by a varicose condition of the rectal veins. They are 
 caused by habitual constipation or disorder of the liver. 
 
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82 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Sometimes they may be removed by ligature, or other- 
 wise. The food should be soft, and laxatives may be 
 given. 
 
 Pityriasis. 
 
 This is a scurfy condition of the skin, most frequently 
 seen in young animals. A mild sedative ointment and a 
 change of diet should be recommended. 
 
 Placental Membranes, Retention of the. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Powdered ergot, one ounce (or liquid extract of 
 
 ergot, one fluid ounce). 
 Carbonate of ammonium, four drachms. 
 This draught may be given in two pints of warm water, 
 and, if necessary, repeated on the following day. 
 
 Plenalvia, or Engorgement and Inflammation of the 
 Rumen. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Epsom salts, sixteen ounces. 
 Solution of aloes, four to eight fluid ounces. 
 Powdered ginger, one and a half ounces. 
 Aromatic spirit of ammonia, one and a half fluid 
 ounces. 
 
 The above should be mixed with a rather large amount 
 of warm gruel, and the draught is to be given slowly and 
 carefully with a horn. This may be followed up with 
 about half a pint of linseed-oil, and if there be no relief, 
 the first draught may be repeated, or two pints of castor- 
 oil given. Puncturing the rumen may be advisable, and 
 the animal's left side should be well rubbed with the 
 
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 hand. A little exercise may be taken, and warm water 
 may be injected into the stomach with the stomach- 
 pump. In some cases the operation of rumenotomy must 
 be performed. 
 
 Plethora. 
 
 An over-fed animal, especially if not sufficiently exer- 
 cised, is liable to simple acute inflammation, and may 
 fall a victim to disease depending upon this overloaded 
 state of the blood. Moreover, calves when fed with too 
 great an amount of food, especially of a nitrogenous 
 character, are very prone to become the prey of the 
 germs of black-leg. 
 
 Pleurisy. 
 
 After giving a laxative, drenches containing acetate of 
 ammonium, camphor, and nitric ether every four hours, 
 with the addition of aconite in acute cases in vigorous 
 animals. Bleeding is not to be recommended. Hot 
 cloths should be applied in the acute stages, as in in- 
 flammation of the lungs, and as the acute symptoms 
 subside, mustard poultices or blisters of cantharides oint- 
 ment should be made use of. 
 
 A combination of carbonate of ammonium, iodide of 
 potassium, and digitalis, about one drachm of each, 
 may be given. Carbonate of ammonium is one of the 
 best stimulants which can be used. In the stage of 
 return to health, the tincture of the perchloride of iron 
 with nux vomica is very useful, and good diet is then 
 required. 
 
 If the effusion of fluid be abundant, it is necessary to 
 tap the chest. This operation is performed by passing a 
 large Southey's trocar and canula through the wall of 
 the chest between the eighth and ninth ribs. The trocar 
 
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 is then withdrawn, and over the external orifice of the 
 canula is passed one end of a piece of indiarubber tubing, 
 the other end of which dips to the bottom of a vessel 
 placed to remove the fluid as it flows out from the chest. 
 
 Pleuro-Pneumonia Contagiosa. 
 
 This disease is not treated. Immediate slaughter of 
 all animals affected, and of such as have been in con- 
 tiguity with affected animals, should be carried out, and 
 the carcases should be buried with antiseptic precautions, 
 because the flesh is not fit for human food. In case one 
 should be travelling in a foreign country, such as Africa., 
 with a span of oxen, we give forms : 
 
 Draught. 
 
 (i.) Pure carbolic acid, half a fluid drachm. 
 Cod-liver oil ten fluid ounces. 
 Thrice daily, in two pints of warm water. 
 
 (ii.) Salicine or salicylate of sodium, four drachms 
 (or salicylic acid, three drachms). 
 Sulphite of sodium, five drachms. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Gentian, one ounce and a half. 
 Give in a pint of ale twice daily. 
 (iii.) Iodine, half a drachm. 
 Tonics, three ounces. 
 Give in two pints of beer (D. G.). 
 
 Pneumonia, or Inflammation of the Lungs. 
 
 The animal should be placed in a well-ventilated, airy 
 box or shed, since a due supply of fresh cool air is 
 essential. Cloths wrung out from hot water should be 
 applied around the chest, and should be renewed every 
 hour, so long as the acute symptoms last. Afterwards, 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 85 
 
 the sides of the chest may be blistered by the application 
 on one side of mustard, and on the other, if it be also 
 affected, of ointment of cantharides, or a strong ammonia 
 and turpentine liniment. Moreover, in the first instance, 
 a fair dose of Epsom salts should be given in a pint of 
 warm water, and every four hours a drench containing 
 solution of carbonate of ammonium, solution of acetate of 
 ammonium, and camphor. Digitalis is also sometimes 
 useful. Tincture of aconite (V.P.), in forty-five minim 
 doses, is useful in plethoric cases. When the lungs are 
 extensively inflamed, it is often best to slaughter. 
 
 Poisoning the Water-supply. 
 
 The water in ponds is often most unwholesome, owing 
 to the collection of excrement, and perhaps also as a 
 result of the dead bodies of animals having been thrown 
 into them. Such methods of poisoning the water-supply 
 are to be looked upon as signifying reckless folly. 
 
 Poisons. 
 
 Black Hellebore : 
 
 This is sometimes used as a counter-irritant dressing 
 for setons in the dew-lap. If extreme inflamma- 
 tion has been set up in this way, the swelling 
 should be fomented, and a full dose of purgative 
 medicine given. 
 
 Solanum Dulcamara : 
 
 This plant flowers in June and July, and produces 
 berries a few weeks later. The pulse of an animal 
 poisoned by it becomes almost imperceptible, and 
 one of the symptoms is wildness and mad rush- 
 ing to and fro. The pupils become much dilated, 
 and the bowels freely opened. Stimulating 
 
86 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 draughts, as in cases of yew-tree poisoning, are 
 best. See p. 102. 
 Lead : 
 
 Should an ox suffer from lead-poisoning, which is a 
 very rare occurrence, a strong purgative is needed. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Epsom salts, ten ounces. 
 
 Glauber's salts, ten ounces. 
 
 Diluted sulphuric acid, four fluid drachms. 
 
 Croton oil, twenty minims. 
 Give in a sufficiency of gruel, and repeat the draught 
 in half the amount after the lapse of eight or ten hours, 
 if it be thought necessary. Mucilage of linseed or gruel 
 should be given in large quantities every hour, and at 
 each alternate administration four drachms of diluted 
 sulphuric acid may be added. 
 
 Premature Delivery may perhaps be occasioned by ergot, 
 which is present on the grasses between August 
 and December. 
 
 Preputial Calculi. 
 
 Calculi may be present on the wool around the pre- 
 puce of sheep. In these cases the triple phosphates, 
 being deposited from the urine, block up the urethra. 
 The best plan is to remove these calculi. In some cases 
 it may be necessary to cut off the vermiform appendage,* 
 or to cut into the urethral canal above the place where 
 the obstruction exists. Aperients and small doses of 
 diluted mineral acids may be useful. 
 
 Probang, Passing the. 
 
 The ox must be secured, and a gag held or strapped 
 
 * This operation would render a ram unfit for breeding purposes. 
 
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 in the animal's mouth. The prohang is to be well oiled, 
 and passed backwards steadily. When the operator 
 feels the obstruction, he must try, by moderate and 
 steady pressure, to force it downwards into the rumen. 
 The distressing symptoms then vanish, and gas escapes 
 from the rumen. Great care should always be exercised 
 in this operation. 
 
 Prolapsus Ani. 
 
 The cause of straining should be obviated, and the 
 bowel well washed with cold water, and, if possible, care- 
 fully returned by pressure. Some prefer hot water. 
 
 Prurigo. 
 
 This disease is sometimes known as ' Spring Lice.' It 
 is often met with among cattle, especially during the 
 early parts of the year. The coat stares, the papillae of 
 the dermis are inflamed, and pimples appear on the body 
 and legs, crusts are formed, and then thrown off, together 
 with the hair. See Urticaria, p. 101. 
 
 Psoriasis. 
 
 Treatment should begin with the exhibition of an 
 aperient. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Liquor arsenicalis, two fluid drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of sodium, one ounce. 
 Water, a pint. 
 Twice daily. 
 
 Ointment. 
 
 Tar, two and a half parts. 
 
 Yellow wax, one part. 
 Melt the wax at a low heat, add the tar, and stir whilst 
 the mixture cools. 
 Puerperal Apoplexy. — See Apoplexy, Parturient, p. 13. 
 
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 Puerperal Peritonitis. — See Metro-Peritonitis, p. 74. 
 
 Puerperal Mania. 
 
 Slaughter is generally the best course. 
 
 Pupil of Eye. 
 
 Lotions. 
 (i.) To cause contraction : 
 
 Sulphate or salicylate of eserine, sixteen grains. 
 
 Water, eight fluid ounces, 
 (ii.) To cause dilatation : 
 
 Sulphate of atropine, half a drachm. 
 
 "Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Purpura Hemorrhagica. 
 
 Draughts. 
 (i.) Quinetuin, one drachm. 
 
 Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 Oil of turpentine, half a fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 (ii.) Powdered gentian, one ounce. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, half an ounce. 
 Carbonate of iron, two drachms. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water, gruel, or ale. 
 
 Pyaemia. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Powdered cinchona bark, one ounce. 
 Salicylate of sodium, half an ounce. 
 Mix well with a pint of warm water, and give thrice 
 on the first day, and then twice each day. Treatment 
 
THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. &9 
 
 should, however, begin with a laxative, and, during con- 
 valescence, tonics will be required. See Anaemia, p. 5. 
 
 Pyrexia. 
 
 This word means a condition of elevated temperature, 
 as occurs during a fever and in febrile conditions generally. 
 See Antipyretics, p. 10. 
 
 Rabies. 
 
 This disease is not treated, the beast being shot. It is 
 but rarely met with in the ox. The flesh is not fit for food. 
 
 Rachitis, or Rickets (in Calves). 
 The food should be nutritious. 
 
 Poiuder. 
 
 Phosphate of lime, two drachms. 
 Give in the food or in milk once every day. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Cod-liver oil, four fluid ounces. 
 Lime water, two fluid ounces. 
 Once daily. 
 
 Rectum, Mechanical Distension of the. 
 
 This condition may sometimes be so serious (especially 
 in the case of the rectum of young animals being dis- 
 tended with meconium) as to necessitate removal, either 
 by means of the oiled forefinger, or in any other suitable 
 manner. 
 
 Red-water, or Hematuria. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of magnesium, giv. 
 Extract of taraxacum, gi. 
 Carbonate of iron, 5i. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
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 Renal Dropsy. 
 
 Purgatives should be given, and the skin should be 
 acted upon. 
 
 Respiratory System. — See separate headings, namely : 
 Catarrh, Epistaxis, Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, 
 Pleurisy. 
 
 Retention of Placental Membranes 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphate of magnesium, sixteen ounces. 
 
 Powdered ergot, one ounce. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, four drachms. 
 This draught may be mixed with two pints of warm 
 water, and given once, and then again on the next day, if 
 necessary. 
 
 Retinitis, or Specific Ophthalmia. 
 
 The animal seeks quiet and solitude, avoids the light, 
 and closes the eyelids. In the early stages, the pupil 
 is contracted, the inflamed retina not being able to bear 
 the light. There is a profuse discharge of tears. A 
 red tinge of the fundus may be noticed. 
 
 Rhagio Columbaschensis is a fly which is very destructive 
 to cattle in Hungary and Servia. 
 
 Rheumatism, 
 (a) Acute. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Tincture of colchicum, half a fluid ounce. 
 Tincture of aconite (B.P.), half a fluid drachm. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 
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 Salicylate of sodium, four drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give at intervals of sis hours, until the fever be abated, 
 and then continue with half the dose of all the ingredients, 
 but leaving out the aconite. 
 
 Local Applications. 
 Liniment of belladonna 
 
 equal parts. 
 
 Liniment of aconite ^ 
 
 Liniment of chloroform I 
 
 Ordinary white liniment ^ 
 This liniment, or if necessary a stronger counter- 
 irritant (see Counter-irritants), may be well rubbed on the 
 affected parts. See p. 37. 
 
 (b) Chronic. 
 
 DraugJit. 
 
 Tincture of colchicum, two fluid drachms. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, half an ounce. 
 
 Salicylate of sodium, two drachms. 
 
 Iodide of potassium, two drachms. 
 
 Water, q.s. 
 Give twice daily. 
 
 Local Applications. — Same as above. 
 Rickets. — See Rachitis, p. 89. 
 
 For this malady, nutritious food, cod-liver oil, in daily 
 doses of four fluid ounces mixed with two fluid ounces of 
 lime water, and tonics given in milk. 
 
92 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Ringworm, Ordinary (Tinea Tonsurans). 
 
 Ointments. 
 
 (i.) Ointment of iodine. 
 
 (ii.) Ointment of nitrate of mercury. See p. 77. 
 (iii.) Oleate of copper, one part. 
 Lard or vaseline, five parts. 
 
 Lotions. 
 
 (i.) Sulphurous acid, one fluid drachm. 
 
 Glycerine, two fluid drachms, 
 (ii.) Perchloride of mercury, one part. 
 
 Water, five hundred parts, 
 (iii.) Acetum cantharidum. 
 
 Ringworm, Favus Honeycomb (Achorion Schoenleinii). 
 
 The same treatment as above will be found efficacious. 
 We believe that the best plan is to paint the part with 
 sulphurous acid at the outset, and then continue this 
 application, or one of the others, daily or every alternate 
 day. 
 
 Rumenotomy is sometimes necessary in cases of extreme 
 engorgement of the rumen. 
 
 Rupture of the Rumen. 
 
 This accident sometimes occurs as a result of tympany, 
 whether primary, or attendant upon engorgement. It 
 may be due to a wound or injury, especially if the rumen 
 be at the time engorged, or to the presence of irritant 
 substances. Death is almost inevitable. 
 
 Scabies in Sheep. 
 
 Sulphur ointment is best ; but cases of scabies must be at 
 once reported, and dealt with according to law. See p. 1. 
 
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 Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Salicylate of sodium, four drachms. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, half an ounce. 
 Water, to eight fluid ounces. 
 Thrice daily, until the temperature be reduced, and 
 then give only half the above dose of salicylate. 
 
 Schlundbeulen (Actinomycosis). — See latter heading, p. 2. 
 
 Scour, or Skit, and Scouring in Young Calves. — See 
 Diarrhoea, p. 
 
 Scrofula. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Phosphate of lime, two drachms. 
 Sulphate of iron, one drachm. 
 Gentian, one and a half ounces. 
 Give in warm water twice daily. 
 
 Scrofulous Arthritis. — See Arthritis, Scrofulous, p. 16. 
 
 Septicaemia, or Blood-poisoning. — See Blood-poisoning, p. 22. 
 
 Setons. 
 
 When oxen are lame in the stifle, the compound lini- 
 ment of ammonia should be well rubbed over the joint 
 once or twice a day. Setons inserted over the joint and 
 dressed with black oil daily are also to be recommended. 
 They should be inserted every fortnight, and the parts 
 should be kept quite clean. Setons are also very useful 
 as a preventive of black-leg. 
 
94 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 Simple Colic. 
 
 It is advisable to give sixteen ounces of Epsom salts, 
 and enemas may be also tried. Blood may be abstracted, 
 if tbe animal be plethoric. A useful draught may be 
 made of two fluid ounces of aromatic spirit of ammonia 
 and two fluid ounces of tincture of opium. If no relief 
 be obtained, this drench may be repeated in an hour and 
 a half. Again, we may give at intervals of four hours a 
 draught composed of half a fluid ounce of oil of turpentine, 
 one and a half fluid ounces of tincture of opium, and two 
 fluid ounces of spirit of nitrous ether. 
 
 Simple Erythema. 
 
 Ointment of boric acid \ 
 Ointment of oxide of zinc > equal parts. 
 Vaseline ) 
 
 Mix well and apply. 
 
 Sore Teats. 
 
 Ointment of boric acid, or the above. 
 
 Splenic Apoplexy, or Splenic Fever. — See Anthrax, p. 7. 
 
 This disease, when undoubted, should not be treated ; 
 but the oxen suffering from it should at once be isolated 
 and shot, and the carcases buried with lime at a good 
 depth. However, cases may arise where doubt may 
 exist, and perhaps the farmer may think well to have the 
 other oxen treated with a preventive. If so, give — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Sulphite of sodium, three drachms. 
 Salicylate of sodium, three drachms. 
 Water, fifteen fluid ounces. 
 Every four hours for a day or two. 
 
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 Sprains. 
 
 (a) Early stage : 
 
 Cooling Lotion. 
 
 Solution of subacetate of lead, one fluid ounce. 
 Methylated spirit, two fluid ounces. 
 Chloride of ammonium, two ounces. 
 Nitrate of potassium, two ounces. 
 Tincture of arnica, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, one pint. 
 
 (b) Later stage : 
 
 Some stimulating liniment, such as ordinary white 
 liniment. 
 
 Stamping-out. 
 
 In the case of certain diseases, such as cattle plague, 
 anthrax, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and rabies, there 
 is no doubt that the policy of immediate measures of 
 isolation, slaughter, and burial with efficient precautions 
 is best. In regard to other maladies, such as foot-and- 
 mouth disease, it may be a wise plan ; but in reference to 
 tuberculosis, the disease is so widespread that some 
 doubt may exist — on the score of the great expense which 
 such a course would entail — if it would be practicable. 
 No doubt, however, can be reasonably entertained that 
 tuberculosis of human beings is in large measure trans- 
 mitted by the medium of the milk and flesh of oxen 
 affected with that disease. 
 
 Starch Bandages. 
 
 These are useful for setting fractures. 
 
 Stings. 
 
 Lotions. 
 
 (i.) Carbolic acid, one fluid part. 
 Glycerine, one fluid part. 
 
96 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBER. 
 
 (ii.) Permanganate of potassium, half a drachm. 
 Water, eight fluid ounces. 
 
 Stomach Staggers. 
 
 Give a full cathartic dose, and suitable stimulants, 
 such as — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, four drachms. 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, one ounce. 
 Water, a pint. 
 
 Stomatitis, Gangrenous. — See Gangrenous Stomatitis, p. 51. 
 
 Stones, or Calculi. 
 
 As a rule, of the three operations which might be 
 resorted to, viz., artificial dilatation of the urethra by 
 little inflated bladders or otherwise, crushing of the stone 
 by means of instruments, or cutting for the stone, not 
 one seems to be usually very advisable in the case of the 
 ox. In the case of female animals, the chances of success 
 are better. If the calculus be present in the urethra, a 
 longitudinal or oblique section may be made along that 
 canal over the site of the stone. 
 
 Strangury. — See Hematuria, p. 55. 
 
 Stringhalt. 
 
 This disordered condition is well-known among horse- 
 men as affecting horses. A similar malady has been 
 described as attacking oxen. 
 
 Suppression of Urine. 
 
 This may occur as a result of inflammation of the 
 kidneys, or of acute febrile diseases. A working ox, fed 
 on dry food, should be supplied with about seven gallons 
 
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 of water daily, and hence it is clear that they may often 
 have an insufficient quantity when kept in parched-up 
 fields. 
 
 Symbiotes Bovis. 
 
 According to Gerlach there are two forms of acarus 
 which produce mange, viz., Dermatodectes bovis and the 
 Symbiotes bovis. See p. 1. 
 
 Tabes Mesenterica. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Sulphate of iron, two drachms. 
 Creasote, twenty minims. 
 Gentian, one ounce. 
 ( ringer, half an ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm gruel twice daily. N.B.— 
 Carbolic acid may be used instead of the creasote in the 
 dose of twenty minims for the adult, and six minims for 
 a calf. 
 
 (ii.) Cod-liver oil, ten fluid ounces. 
 Oil of eucalyptus, ten minims. 
 Give twice daily, 
 (iii.) Cod-liver oil, one pint. 
 
 Bromide of potassium, two drachms. 
 Sulphide of calcium, one drachm, 
 (iv.) Salol, one drachm and a half in the food once 
 daily. 
 
 Tail-worm. 
 
 This is not a real disease, as is imagined by some. 
 
 Teats, Injuries and Obstructions in the. 
 
 There may be tumours, or perhaps lacteal calculi or 
 milk-stones. A silver probe should be passed up the 
 
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 teat. Warts also may be found at the end of a teat, 
 and they may be removed by constricting them with a 
 fine silk ligature. Sore teats should be treated with 
 ointment of turpentine. 
 
 Tetanus, or Lockjaw. 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bromide of potassium, four drachms. 
 Anise fruit, four drachms. 
 This draught may be mixed with warm water or gruel, 
 and given thrice daily. 
 
 Texas Fever, or Anthrax. — See Anthrax, p. 7. 
 
 Thorter 111. 
 
 This is a nervous disorder, which is due to the presence 
 of a hydatid in the cervical portion of the spinal cord, 
 whereby more or less marked paralysis of one or both 
 sides of the body may be caused. 
 
 Thrush in the Mouth. — See Aphtha, p. 11. 
 
 Tinea Favosa. 
 
 This ringworm is caused by the fungus Achorion 
 Schonleinii. The spores gain entrance into the hairs, as 
 well as into the cuticle. The crusts should be removed, 
 and to the underlying parts should be applied a prepara- 
 tion composed of one fluid part of diluted sulphurous acid, 
 mixed with about three fluid parts of glycerine. 
 
 Tinea Tonsurans. 
 
 This ringworm is caused by the fungus Trichophyton 
 tonsurans. Great care must be taken not to get it, nor 
 to allow it to be transmitted. Circular patches devoid 
 of hair are seen, and the skin is scurfy. The same treat- 
 
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 ment as above is good. Ointment of iodine and tincture 
 of iodine and hyposulphite of sodium (saturated solution) 
 are beneficial. 
 
 Tobacco 
 
 Is useful in cases of tetanus. 
 
 Tongue, Actinomycosis of. — See Actinomycosis, p. 2. 
 
 Tonics. — See Anaemia, p. 5. 
 
 Draughts. 
 
 (i.) Gentian, one ounce. 
 Ginger, half an ounce. 
 Carbonate of ammonium, half an ounce. 
 Carbonate of iron, two drachms. 
 Give twice daily in a pint of warm water, gruel, or ale. 
 (ii.) Solution of hydrochlorate of strychnine, two 
 fluid drachms. 
 Tincture of capsicum, four fluid drachms. 
 Muriate of cinchona, one drachm. 
 Tincture of perchloride of iron, one fluid ounce. 
 Give in a pint of warm gruel. 
 
 Transmission of Scarlet Fever and Tuberculosis to Human 
 Beings. 
 There can be no doubt that both these diseases fre- 
 quently spring from eating the flesh or drinking the milk 
 of diseased oxen. Hence the greatest caution should be 
 exercised. 
 
 Treatment, or Slaughter. 
 
 It is often difficult to decide which course is preferable 
 in the case of oxen. 
 
 Trichina Spiralis. 
 
 This worm has been found in man, pig, ox, rabbit, rat, 
 and other animals. 
 
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 Tympanites, or Hoven. 
 
 Commence with a cathartic dose. Half an ounce of 
 vegetable charcoal may be given occasionally. 
 
 Draughts. 
 (i.) Hyposulphite of sodium, half an ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Every three hours for several times, if thought ad- 
 visable. 
 
 (ii.) Ether, two fluid ounces. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, half an ounce. 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Every four hours, 
 (iii.) Sulpho-carbolate of sodium, two drachms. 
 Bromide of potassium, two drachms. 
 Chlorodyne, six fluid drachms. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Every five hours, 
 (iv.) Aromatic spirit of ammonia, two fluid ounces. 
 Spirit of chloroform, one fluid ounce. 
 Oil of turpentine, one fluid ounce. 
 Water, sixteen fluid ounces. 
 Every three hours. 
 
 (v.) Solution of ammonia, two fluid ounces. 
 Brandy, one pint. 
 Give in a pint of gruel. 
 
 Udder, Inflammation of. — See Garget, or Inflammation, p. 
 
 52. 
 
 Ursemia. 
 
 When the kidneys are out of working order, as is the 
 case in this condition, the liver, the skin, and the bowels 
 should be acted on. 
 
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 Urticaria. 
 
 A fairly strong saline cathartic should be given in the 
 first place. In addition to this internal treatment, a 
 lotion containing glycerine, carbonate of sodium, and 
 tincture of opium may be usefully applied several times 
 daily. Sulphur and bicarbonate of potassium may be 
 given, or the following — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Bicarbonate of potassium, half an ounce. 
 Bicarbonate of sodium, half an ounce. 
 Nitrate of potassium, half an ounce. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, two fluid ounces. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Twice daily for a few days. 
 
 Ointment. 
 Equal parts of boric acid and zinc ointments. 
 
 Vaccinia (Cow-pox). 
 
 Begin with a laxative. Also draw off the milk with a 
 syphon. 
 
 Draught. 
 Solution of acetate of ammonium, four fluid ounces. 
 Tincture of aconite (V.P.), forty minims. 
 Water, q.s. 
 Thrice daily. 
 
 Verminous Broichitis. — See Bronchitis, Verminous, p. 25. 
 
 Warble. — See CEstrus Bovis, p. 75. 
 
 Wasting. 
 
 Drench. 
 
 Powdered nux vomica, forty grains. 
 Powdered capsicum seeds, half a drachm. 
 
102 THE BOVINE PRESCRIBED 
 
 Sulphate of iron, one drachm. 
 Powdered ginger, half an ounce. 
 Powdered gentian, one ounce. 
 Powdered calumba, one ounce. 
 Sulphide of calcium, one drachm. 
 
 Whites. — See Leucorrhoea, p. 70. 
 
 Yew-tree Poisoning. 
 
 In the first place a cathartic should be given, and then — 
 
 Draught. 
 
 Carbonate of ammonium, three drachms. 
 Whisky, four fluid ounces. 
 Gruel, sufficient to make half a pint. 
 Give every four hours, until the animal be somewhat 
 better, and then every six hours for another day. 
 
 Zymotic Diseases. — Eefer to Infectious Diseases, Preven- 
 tion of the, p. 62. 
 
 THE END. 
 
 BAILLIERE, TINDAI.L AND COX, 20 AND 21, KING WILLIAM STREET. STRANU. 
 
CATALOGUE OF 
 
 William R. Jenkins Co.'s 
 
 Works Concerning 
 
 HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, SWIHE, Etc. 
 1910 
 
 (*) Designate* New Books. 
 
 (f) Designates Recent Publications. 
 
 ANDERSON. "Vice in the Horse" and other papers 
 on Horses and Riding. By E. L. Anderson. Size, 
 6x9, cloth, illustrated 1 75 
 
 ABMSTEAD. "The Artistic Anatomy of the Horse." 
 
 A brief description of the various Anatomical Struc- 
 tures which may be distinguished during Life through 
 the Skin, By Hugh W. Armstead, M.D., F.R.GS. 
 With illustrations from drawings by the author. 
 Cloth oblong, 10 x 12| 3 75 
 
 BACH. " Hott to Judge a Horse." A concise treatise 
 as to its Qualities and Soundness ; Including Bits and 
 Bitting, Saddles and Saddling, Stable Drainage, Driv- 
 ing One Horse, a Pair, Four-in-hand, or Tandem, etc. 
 By Gapt. F.W. Bach. Size, 5x7£, clo., fully illus.l 00 
 
 BANHA&T. "Tables of Veterinary Posology and Thera. 
 
 peutics," with weights, measures, etc. By Geo. A- 
 
 Banharn, F. R. C. V. S. New edition. Cloth, size 
 
 4x5 1-2, 192 pages 1 00 
 
 BAUCHER. "Method of Horsemanship." Including 
 the Breaking and Training of Horses. By 
 F. Baucher. (Temporarily out of print). 
 
 BELL. (*)"The Veterinarian's CaU Book (Perpetual)." 
 
 By Roacoe R. Bell, D.V.S., editor of the American 
 Veterinary Review. Completely revised. 
 
 A visiting list, that can be commenced at any time 
 and used until full, containing much useful informa- 
 tion for the student and the busy practitioner. 
 Among content^ are items concerning : Prescription 
 writing; Veterinary Drugs; Poisons; Solubility of 
 Drugs; Composition of Milk, Bile, Blood, Gastric 
 Juice, Urine, Saliva; Respiration; Dentition; Temp- 
 erature, etc., etc. Bound in flexible leather, with 
 flap and pocket 1 25 
 
 8-'10 
 
BITTING. "Cadiot's Exercises in Equine Surgery." 
 
 See "Cadiot." 
 
 BRADLEY. " Outlines of Veterinary Anatomy." 
 
 By O. Charnock Bradley, Member of the Royal Col- 
 lege of Veterinary Surgeons ; Professor of Anatomy 
 in the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh. 
 
 The author presents the most important facts of 
 veterinary anatomy in as condensed a form as possible, 
 consistent with lucidity. 12mo. 
 
 Complete in three parts. 
 
 Part I. : The Limbs (cloth) 1 25 
 
 Part II. : The Trunk (paper) 1 25 
 
 Part III. : The Head and Neck (paper) 1 25 
 
 The Set complete 3 25 
 
 CADIOT. " Exercises in Equine Surgery." By P. J. 
 
 Cadiot. Translated by Prof. A. W. Bitting, D.V.M. 
 EdlUd by Prof. A. Liautard, M.D.V.M. Size, 6 x 9#. 
 
 cloth, illustrated 2 50 
 
 — "Roaring in Horses." Its Pathology and Treatment. 
 This work represents the latest development in oper- 
 ative methods for the alleviation of roaring. Each 
 step is most clearly defined by excellent full-page 
 illustrations. By P. J. Cadiot, Professor at the 
 Veterinary School, Alfort. Translated by Thos. J. 
 Watt Dollar, M.R.C.V.S., etc. Cloth, size 51-4x7 1-8, 
 77 pages, illustrated 75 
 
 — 1" Studies in Clinical Veterinary Medicine and Surgery." 
 
 By P. J. Cadiot. Translated, edited, and supplemented 
 with 49 new articles and 34 illustrations by Jno. A. W. 
 Dollar, M.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size 7x9 3-4, 619 pages, 
 94 black and white illustrations 5 25 
 
 — (*) u A^Treatise on Surgical Therapeutics of the Domestic 
 
 Animals." By P. J. Cadiot and J. Almy. Translated 
 
 by Prof. A. Liautard, M.D..V.M. 
 
 General Surgery. — Means of restraint of animals, 
 general anaesthesia, local anaethosia, surgical anti- 
 sepsis and asepsis, hematosis, cauterization, firing, 
 
 Diseases Common to all Tissues. — Inflammation, 
 abscess, gangrene, ulcers, fistula, foreign bodies, 
 traumatic lesions, complications of traumatic les- 
 ions, granulations, cicatrices, mycosis, virulent 
 diseases, tumors. 
 
 Diseases Special to all Tissues and Affections of 
 the Extremities. — Diseases of skin and cellular tis- 
 sue, of serous bursae, of muscles, of tendons, of 
 tendinous synovial sacs, of aponeurosis, of arteries, 
 of veins, of lymphatics, of nerves, of bones, of 
 articulations. 
 
 Cloth, size 6x9, 580 pages, 118 illustrations 4 50 
 
 CAMPBELL, and LE CROIX. (•)<* Essentials of Para- 
 sitology," with a brief discourse on Zoology. Size 
 5 3-4x8 1-2, 96 pages, with three Charts 1 00 
 
CHAPMAN. "Manual of the Pathological Treatment 
 of I, amotions in the Horse," treated solely by 
 
 mechanical inc. ins. By George T. Chapman. Cloth, 
 bizi- 6 z 9, 124 pages with portrait 2 00 
 
 CLARKE. "Chart of the Feet and Teeth of Fossil 
 Hornes." By W. H. Clarke. Card, size 9 1-2 x 12. . 25 
 
 — "Horses' T<'c1h.' , Fourth edition, re-revised, with second 
 appendix. Cloth, size 5 1-4 x 7 1-2, 322 pp., illus..2 60 
 
 CLEAVELAX1). "Pronouncing Medical Lexicon." 
 Pooket edition. By C. H. Cleveland, M.D. Cloth, 
 size 3 1-4x4 1-2, :!U2 pages 75 
 
 CLEMENT. ki Veterinary Post Mortem Examina- 
 tions." By A. W. Clement, V.S. The absence in the 
 English language of any guide in making autopsies 
 upon the lower animals, induced Dr. Clement to 
 write this book, trusting that it would prove of prac- 
 tical value to the profession. Cloth, size 5x7 1-2, 64 
 pages, illustrated 75 
 
 CO URTENA Y. (+) " Manual of the Practice of Veterinary 
 Medicine." By Edward Courtenay, V. S. Revised by 
 Frederick T. G. Hobday, F.R.C.V.8. Second edition. 
 Cloth, size 5 1-4x7 1-2, 573 pages 2 75 
 
 COX. " Horses : In Accident and Disease." The 
 
 sketches Introduced embrace various attitudes which 
 have been observed, such as in choking ; the disorders 
 and accidents occurring to the stomach and intteines; 
 affection of the brain ; and some special forms of lame- 
 ness, etc. By J. Roalfe Cox, F.K.C.V.S. Cloth, size 
 6 x 9, 28 full page illustrations 1 50 
 
 DALRYMPLE. (*)"Veterinary Obstetrics." A compen- 
 dium for the use of advanced students and Practi- 
 tioners. By W. H. Dalrymple, M. It. C. V. S., 
 principal of the Department of Veterinary Science in 
 the Louisiana State University and A. & M. College; 
 Veterinarian to the Louisiana State Bureau of 
 Agriculture, and Agricultural Experiment Stations. 
 Second edition revised. Cloth, size 6x9 1-4,162 pages, 
 51 illustrations 2 50 
 
 DALZIEL. " Breaking and Training Dogs." Part I, by 
 Pathfinder. Part II, by Hugh Dalziel. Cloth, 
 illustrated 2 60 
 
 — "The Collie." By Hush Dalziel. Paper, illustrated 50 
 
 — "The Diseases of Dogs." Causes, symptoms and treatment. 
 
 By Hugh Dalziel. Illustrated. Paper 50 
 
 — " The Fox Terrier." By Hugh Dalziel. Paper, 50 ; clo.l 00 
 
 — "The Greyhound." Cloth, illus 1 00 
 
 — " The St. Bernard." Cloth, illustrated 1 00 
 
DANCE. " Veterinary Tablet." By A. A. Dance. Chart, 
 17 x 24, mounted on linen, folded in a cloth ease foir 
 the pocket, size 3 3-4 x 6 1-2. Shows at a glance the 
 synopsis of the diseases of horses, cattle and dogs ; 
 with their cause, symptoms and cure 75 
 
 J>E BRUIN. (*)" Bovine Obstetrics." By M. G. De Bruin 
 
 Instructor of Obstetrics at the State Veterinary 
 School in Utrecht. Translated by W. E. A. Wyman, 
 formerly Professor of Veterinary Science at Clemson 
 A. & M. College, and Veterinarian to the South 
 Carolina Experiment Station. Cloth, size 6x9, 382 
 pages, 77 illustrations 5 00 
 
 Synopsis of the Essential Features of the Work 
 
 1. Authorized translation. 
 
 2. The only obstetrical work which Is up to date. 
 
 3. Written by Europe's leading authority on the subject. 
 
 4. Written by a man who has practiced the art a lifetime. 
 
 5. Written by a man who, on account of his eminence aa 
 bovine practitioner and teacher of obstetrics, was selected 
 by Prof. Dr. Frohner and Prof. Dr. Bayer (Berlin and 
 Vienna), to discuss bovine obstetrics both practically and 
 scientifically. 
 
 6. The only work containing a thorough differential diag- 
 nosis of ante and poet partum diseases. 
 
 7. The only work doing justice to modern obstetrical 
 surgery and therapeutics. 
 
 8. Written by a man whose practical suggestions revolu- 
 tionized the teaching of veterinary obstetric* even in tho 
 great schools of Europe. 
 
 9. The only work dealing fully with the now no longer- 
 obscure contagious and infectious diseases of calves. 
 
 10. Absolutely original and no compilation. 
 
 11. The only work dealing fully with the difficult problem, 
 of teaching obstetrics in the colleges. 
 
 12. The only work where the practical part is not over- 
 shadowed by theory. 
 
 ... A veterinarian, particularly if his location brings him in 
 contact with obstetrical practice, who makes any pretence toward 
 being scientific and in possession of modern knowledge upon this 
 subject, will not be without this excellent work, as it is really a very 
 val uable treatise.— Prof. Boitoe B. Bell, in the American Veterinary 
 Review. 
 
 In translating into English Professor De Bruin's excellent text- 
 book on Bovine Obstetrics, Dr. Wyman has laid British and American 
 veterinary surgeons and students under a debt of gratitude. The- 
 works represents the happy medium between the booklets which are 
 adapted for cramming purposes by the student, and the ponderous 
 tomes which, although useful to the teacher, are not exactly suited to 
 the requirements of the everyday practitioner . . . We can strongly 
 recommend the work to veterinary students and practitioners.— The 
 Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics. 
 
 DOLLAR. C*i" Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Goats anfl 
 Swine." Bv G. Moussu and Jno. A. W. Dollar, 
 M.Ii.C.V.S. "Size 6x9 1-2, 7*5 pages, 329 Illustrations 
 in the text and 4 full page plates 8 7& 
 
 — (f)"A Hand-book of Horse-Shoeing," with Introductory 
 chapters on the anatomy and physiology of the 
 horse's foot. By Jno. A. W. Dollar, M.R.C.V.S., 
 with the collaboration of Albert Wheatley, F.E.C.V.S. 
 Cloth, size 6x8 1-2, 433 pages, 406 illustrations . .4 7& 
 
DOLLAR (continued) 
 
 — (f) "OperatlTC Technique." Volume 1 of "The Practice of 
 
 Veterinary Surgery." cloth, size G 3-1 x 10, 264 pages, 
 272 illustrations. 3 75 
 
 — ''General Surgery." Volume 2 of "The Practice of Veter- 
 
 inary Burgery." In preparation. 
 
 — (t)" Regional Veterinary Surgery." Volume 3 of "The 
 
 Practice of Veterinary Burgery." By Drs. Jno. A. 
 W Dollar and H. Mf.l'lor. Cloth, size G 1-2 x 10 853 
 and xvi pages, 315 illustrations 6 25 
 
 — "Cadiot's Clinical Veterinary Medicine and Surgery." 
 
 See " Cadiot." 
 
 — " Cadiot's Roaring in Horses." See " Cadiot." 
 
 DUN. (*) "Veterinary Medicines, their Actions and Uses." 
 
 By Flnlay Dun, V.S., late lecturer on Materia 
 Medlca and Dietetics at the Edinburgh Veterinary 
 College, and Examiner in Chemistry to the Boyal 
 College of Veterinary Surgeons. Edited by James 
 Macqueen, F.R.C.V.S., and Harold A. Woodruff, 
 M.R.C.V.S. Twelfth English edition. Cloth, size 
 6x9 3 75 
 
 FLEMING. " The Contagious Diseases of Animals." Their 
 influence on the wealth aud health of nations and how 
 they are to be combated. Paper, size 5x7 1-2, 
 30 pages 25 
 
 — "Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of the Domesticated 
 
 Animals." See " Neumann." 
 
 — "Operative Veterinary Surgery." Vol. I, by Dr. Geo. 
 
 Fleming, M.R.C.V.S. This valuable work, one of the 
 most practical treatises yet issued on the subject in 
 the English language, is devoted to the common opera- 
 tions of Veterinary Surgery ; and the concise descrip- 
 tions and directions of the text are Illustrated with 
 numerous wood engravings. Cloth, size G x 9 1-4, 285 
 
 and xviii pages, 343 illustrations 2 75 
 
 (*)Vol. II, edited and passed through the press by 
 W. Owen Williams, F.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size 6x9 1-4, 
 430 and xxxvii pages, 344 illustrations 3 25 
 
 — " Roaring in Horses." By Dr. George Fleming, 
 
 F.R C.V.S. Its history, nature, cavises, prevention 
 and treatment. Cloth, size 5 1-2x8 3-4, 160 pages, 21 
 engravings, 1 colored plate 1 50 
 
 — "Veterinary Obstetrics." Including the Accidents and Dis- 
 
 eases incident to Pregnancy, Parturition, and the Early 
 Age in Domesticated Animals. By Geo. Fleming, 
 F.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size 6x8 3-4, 758 pages, illua.6 25 
 
GOTTHIEL. ff) "A Manual of General Histology." 
 
 By Wm. S. Gottheil, Al D., Professor of Pathology in 
 the American Veterinary College, New York; etc., etc. 
 Histology is the basis of the physician's art, as 
 Anatomy is the foundation of the surgeon's science. 
 The subject i-i presented in an accessible and simple- 
 form. Second edition revised. Cloth, size 5 1-2 x 8, 
 152 pages, 68 illustrations 1 CO 
 
 ORES SWELL. "Diseases and Disorders of the Horse." 
 
 A Treatise on Equine Medicine and Surgery, being » 
 contribution to the science of comparative pathology. 
 By Albert, Jas. B. and Geo. Gresswell. Cloth, size* 
 5 3-4x8 3 4, 227 pages, illustrated. 1 75 
 
 — " The Bovine Prescriher." For the use of Veterinarians 
 
 and Veterinary Students. Second edition, revised 
 and enlarged, bv James B. and Albert Gresswell, 
 M.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size. 5 x 7 1-2, 102 pages 75 
 
 — "The Equine Hospital Prescriher." For the use of Veter- 
 
 inary Practitioners and Students. Third edition re- 
 vised and enlarged, by Drs. James B. and Albert 
 Gresswell, M.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size 5x7 1-2, 165 
 pages 75 
 
 — Manual of "The Theory and Practice of Equine Medicine.'* 
 
 By James B. Gresswell, F.R.C.V.S., and Albert 
 Gresswell, M.R.C.V.S. Second edition revised. 
 Cloth, size 5 1-4x7 1-2, 539 pages 2 75 
 
 — (t) "Veterinary Pharmacopeia and Manual of Comparative 
 
 Therapy." By George and Charles Gresswell, with 
 descriptions and physiological actions of medicines, 
 by Albert Gresswell. Second edition revised and 
 enlarged. Cloth, 6x8 3-4, 457 pages 3 60' 
 
 HASSLOCH. " A Compend of Veterinary Materia Medica 
 
 and Therapeutics." By A. C. Hassloch, V.S.„ 
 Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and' 
 Professor of Veterinary Dentistry at the New York 
 College of Veterinarv Surgeons and School of Compa- 
 rative Medicine, N. Y. Cloth, size 5 1-4x7 1-2, 225 
 pages 1 50* 
 
 HEATLEY. " The Stock Owner's Guide." A handy Medi- 
 cal Treatise for ev^ry man who owns an ox or cow. 
 Bv Geonre S. Heatley, M.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size 
 5 1-4 x 8, 172 pages 1 25 
 
 HILL, ft)" The Diseases of the Cat." Bv J. Woodroffe 
 Hill, F.K.C.V.S. Cloth, size 5 1-4x7 1-2, 123 pages, 
 
 illustrated 1 25 
 
 Written from the experience of many years' prac- 
 tice and close pathological research. 
 
 — "The Management and Diseases of the Dog." By J. 
 
 Woodroffe Hill, F.R.C.V.S. Cloth, size 5x7 1-2; 
 extra fully illustrated. 
 
HIXEBAUCn. "Veterinary Dental Surgery." ByT. D. 
 Hlnebauoh, M.S.V.S. For the use of Students, Prac- 
 titioners and Stockmen. Cloth, size 5 1-4 x 8, 256 
 pages, Illustrated. 
 
 HOARE. (*)"A Manual of Veterinary Therapeutics and 
 Pharmacology." By E. Wallis Hoare, P.E.O.V.S. 
 Cloth, size 5 1-4 x 7 1-1, xxvi plus 780 pages 4 75 
 
 HOBDAY. (t)"The Castration of Cryptorcliid Horses and 
 tiie Ovariotomy of Troublesome Mares." By 
 Frederick T. G. Hobday, F.R C.V.S. Cloth, size 
 5 3-4 x 8 3-4, KG pages, 34 illustrations 1 75 
 
 HUNTING. (\) The Art of Horse-shoeing. A manual 
 for Horseshoers. By William Hunting, F.R.C.V.S., 
 ex-President of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
 geons. One of the most up-to-date, concise books of 
 its kind in the English language. Cloth, sizo6x91-4. 
 126 pages, 96 illustrations 1 00 
 
 JENKINS. (*) " Anatomical and Physiological Model of 
 
 the Cow." Half life size. Composed of superposed 
 plates, colored to nature, showing internal organs, 
 muscles, skeleton, etc., mounted on strong boards, 
 with explanatory text. Size of Model opened, 
 10 ft. x 3 ft., closed 3 ft. x H ft 10 00 
 
 "Anatomical and Physiological Model of the Horse." 
 
 Half life size. Size of Model 38 x 41 in 12 00 
 
 Anatomical and Physiological Models. Colored to Nature, 
 With explanatory Charts. Opened, 22in. x 26 1-2 in. ; 
 closed, 11 in. x 26 1-2 in. 
 
 Horse, 384 parts 2 00 
 
 Cow, 393 parts 2 fO 
 
 Sheep, 364 parts 2 00 
 
 Dog, 3G4 parts 2 00 
 
 Pig, in preparation. 
 
 All live models ordered at one time, prepaid 8 75 
 
 With each model and chart a descriptive book of 
 the animal is supplied free. These books when sold 
 separately are 2oc. each. 
 
 These models are not only of the utmost value to 
 veterinarians, but every lecturer, student, owner of a 
 dairy, will be amazed at the resultant value and con- 
 venience to him of a thing of the sort hanging for 
 ready reference on the wall of his room or office. For 
 clearness the model at once surpasses books and 
 atlase*. 
 
JOITES. (V'The Surgical Anatomy of the Horse." 
 
 By Jno. T. Share Jones, M.R.C.V.S. Parts I, II and 
 III ready. To be completed in four parts. Each 
 part— paper, $4.25 ; cloth, $5.00. 
 
 JORDAN. (•) "The Gait of the American Trotter and 
 Pacer." By Rudolf Jordan, Jr. Size 6 1-4 x 9 1-2, 
 xii plus 324 pages, 217 illustrations, including 11 full 
 
 page, and frontispiece in color 3 50 
 
 Every lover of the harness horse should read this 
 book. The most notable study of the trotting and 
 pacing gaits ever published. It clears up the question 
 of balance by a simple inquiry into cause and effect. 
 It gives an exact analysis of the motion, action and 
 extension of the two gaits, and with numerous illus- 
 trations points the way to the proper adjustment of 
 hoof and shoe for a square gait. It sets forth many 
 important facts by a new and practical method of 
 fixing the origin of a faulty gait. Its investigations 
 for the rational development of speed by means of a 
 corrected gait make it a valuable aid to every owner 
 and trainer. 
 A Classic— Cliicago Horseman. 
 
 M.OBERT. "Practical Toxicology - for Physicians and 
 Students " By Professor Dr. Rudolph Robert, 
 Medical Director of Dr. Brehmer's Sanitarium for 
 Pulmonary Diseases at Goerbersdorf in Silesia (Prus- 
 sia), late Director of the Pharmacological Institute, 
 Dorpat, Russia. Translated and edited by L. H. 
 Friedburg, Ph.D. Authorized Edition. Practical 
 knowledge by means of tables which occupy little 
 space, but show at a glance similarities and differ- 
 ences between poisons of the same group. Also rules 
 for the Spelling and Pronunciation of Chemical Terms, 
 as adopted by the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science. Cloth, 6 1-2 x 10, 201 pp.. 2 50 
 
 KOCH. ".Etiology of Tuberculosis." By Dr. R. Koch. 
 Translated by T. Saure. Cloth, size 6x9 1-4, 97 
 pages 1 00 
 
 LAW. "Farmers' Veterinary Adviser." A Guide to the 
 Prevention and Treatment of Disease in Domestic 
 Animals. By Prof. James Law. Cloth, size 
 5 1-4x7 1-2, illustrated 3 00 
 
 LIAUTARD. (f)" Animal Castration." A concise and 
 practical Treatise on the Castration of the Domestic 
 Animals. The only work on the subject in the 
 English language. By Alexander Liautard, M.D.,V.S. 
 Having a fine portrait of the author. Tenth edition 
 revised and enlarged. Cloth, size 5 1-4x7 1-2, 165 
 pages, 45 Illustrations 2 00 
 
 . . . The most complete and comprehensive work on the 
 subject in English veterinary literature.— American Agri- 
 culturist. 
 
LIAUTARD (continued). 
 
 — "Cadiot's Exercises in Equine Surgery." Translated by 
 Prof. Bitting and edited by Dr. Liautard. 
 See " Cadiot." 
 
 % 
 
 "A Trentise on Surgical Therapeutics of the Domestic 
 Animals." By Prof. Dr. P. J. Cadiot and J. Almy. 
 Translated by Prof. Liautard. See " Cadiot." 
 
 — " How to Tell the Age of the Domestic Animal." By 
 
 Dr. A. Liautard, M.D., V.S. Standard work upon 
 this subject, concise, helpful and containing many 
 illustrations. Cloth, size 5x7 1-2, 35 pages, 42 
 illustrations 50 
 
 — "Lameness of Horses and Diseases of the Locomotor/ 
 
 Apparatus." By A. Liautard, M.D., V.S. This work 
 is the result of Dr. Liautard's many years of experi- 
 ence. Cloth, size 5 1-4x7 1-2, 314 pages 2 50 
 
 — (*)" Manual of Operative Veterinary Surgery" By A. 
 
 Liautard, M.D., V.M. Engaged for years in the work 
 of teaching this special department of veterinary 
 medicine, and having abundant opportunities of 
 realizing the difficulties which the student who 
 earnestly stiives to peifect himself in his calling is 
 obliged to encounter, the author formed the deter- 
 mination to facilitate his acquisition of knowledge, 
 and began the accumulation of material by the com- 
 pilation of data and arrangement of memorandum, 
 with the recorded notes of his own experience, the 
 fruit of a long and extended practice and a careful 
 study of the various authorities who have illustrated 
 and or^nnized veterinary literature. Revised edition, 
 with complete index. Cloth, size 6 1-4 x 9, xxx and 803 
 pages, 5D3 illustrations 5 00 
 
 — "Pellcrin's Median Neurotomy in the Treatment of 
 
 Chronic Tendinitis and Periostosis of the Fetlock." 
 
 Translated by Dr. A. Liautard. See " Pellerm." 
 
 — "Vade Mecum of Equine Anatomy." Br A.. Liautard. 
 
 M.D.V.S. For the use of advanced stu ients and 
 veterinary Burgeons. Third edition. Cloth, size 
 5x7 1-2, 30 pages and 10 full page illustrations of 
 the arteries l 2 00 
 
 — Zundel's ** The Horse's Foot and Its Diseases." 
 
 See " Zundel." 
 
 JLOXG. "Book of the Pig." Its selection, Breeding, 
 Feeding and Management. Cloth 4 . 00 
 
LOWE. ft)" Breeding Racehorses by the Figure 
 
 System." Compiled by the late C. Bruce Lowe. 
 Edited by William Allison, " The Special Commis- 
 sioner," London Sportsman, Hon. Secretary Sporting 
 League, and Manager of the International Horse- 
 Agency and Exchange. With numerous fine illustra- 
 tions of celebrated horses. Cloth, size 8 x 10, '262; 
 pages • 7 60 
 
 LUDLOW. "Science in the Stable"; or How a Horse 
 can be Kept in Perfect Health and be Used Without 
 Shoes, in Harness or under the Saddle. With the 
 Reason Why. Second Edition. By Jacob B. Ludlow, 
 M.D. Late Stuff Surgeon, U. S. Army. Paper, size 
 4 1-2x5 3-4, 166 pages SO 
 
 LUPTON. "Horses: Sound and Unsound," with 
 Law relating to Sales and Warranty. By J. Irvine 
 Lupton, F.K.C.VS. Cloth, size 6 3-4 x 7 1-2, 217 
 pages, 28 illustrations 1 2& 
 
 M'FADYEAN. (f) " Anatomy of the Horse." Second 
 edition completely revised. A Dissection Guide. 
 By John M'Fadyean, M.B., B.So., F.B.S.E. Cloth, 
 
 size 6x8 34, 388 pages, illustrated 6 50' 
 
 This book is intended for Veterinary students, and 
 offers to them in its 48 full-page colored plates,. 
 54 illustrations and excellent text, a valuable and 
 practical aid in the study of Veterinary Anatomy, 
 especially in the dissecting room. 
 
 — •' Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals." 
 
 By J. M'Fadyean. Profusely illustrated, and to be 
 
 issued in two parts. 
 
 Part I— Osteology, ready. Size 5 1-2x8 1-2, 166 
 
 pages, 132 illustrations. Paper, 2 50; cloth 2 76 
 
 (Part II in preparation.) 
 
 MAGNER. "Standard Horse and Stock Book." By 
 
 D. Magner. Comprising over 1,000 pages, illustrated 
 with 1756 engravings. Leather binding. 6 10- 
 
 MILLS. "How to Keep a Dog in the City." By 
 
 Wesley Mills, M.D., D.V.S. It tells how to choose, 
 manage, house, feed, educate the pup, how to keep him 
 clean and teach him cleanliness. Paper, size 5x7 1-2, 
 40 pages 25 
 
 MOHLER. ''Handbook of Meat Inspection." By Robert 
 Ostertag, M.D. Translated by Earley Vernon 
 Wilcox, A.M., Ph.D. With an introduction by 
 John R. Mohler, V.M.D., A M. See " Ostertag." 
 
 MOLLER — DOLLAR. (f) "Regional Veterinary 
 
 Surgery." See il Dollar." 
 
MOSSELMA S-L1EXAUX. "Manual of Veterinary 
 Microbiology*" By Professors Mosselman and 
 Lienaux, Nat. Veterinary College, Cureghein, Belgium. 
 Translated and edited by K. R. Dinwiddie, Professor 
 of Veterinary Srience, College of Agriculture, Arkansas 
 Smte University. Cloth, size 5 12x8, 342 pages, 
 illustrated 2 00 
 
 MOUSSU. (">" Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Goats and 
 Swine." See " Dollar." 
 
 NEUMAXX. (*)"A Treatise on Parasites and Parasitic 
 Diseases of the Domesticated Animals." A work 
 to which the students of human or veterinary medi- 
 ciue, the sanitarian, agriculturist or breeder or rearer 
 of animals, may refer for full information regarding 
 the external and Internal Parasites — vegetable and 
 animal — which attack various species of Domestic 
 Animals. A Treatise by L. G. Neumann, Professor 
 at the National Veterinary School of Toulouse. 
 Translated and edited by Geo. Fleming, C.B., LL.D., 
 F.R C.V.S. Second edition, revised and edited by 
 James Macqu^en, F.R.C.V.S., Professor at the Royal 
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