Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

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• CATTLE.
Take alum and white vitriol, of each half an ounce ; molasses, a quar-
ter of a pint. Dissolve in a pint of warm water.
The feet should be carefully pared, and if much inflamed, a poultice
may be applied ; but if not so, and there is a sore, equal parts of
tincture of myrrh and butyr of antimony. One application of this
caustic is generally sufficient, and the sore should afterwards be
dressed once a day with the following :
Astringent Powder.—Take blue vitriol, powdered, half an ounce
powdered alum, half an ounce ; prepared chalk, two ounces ; armenian
bole, one ounce.
Linseed and oatmeal gruel should be offered to drink, and mashes,
with the best food that can be procured. If the weather be fine, it
will be better to continue the cattle at grass ; but if housed, they
should be kept clean and dry. When the bowels are relaxed, and
there appears much weakness, the following tonic should be given
daily :
Take powdered ginger, one drachm ; powdered caraway seeds',
one drachm ; gentian, powdered, four drachms ; spirit of nitrous
ether, one ounce. To be mixed slowly with gruel.
If there should be any appearance of colic or spasm of the bowels,
an ounce of laudanum may be given with the other medicine ; and if
the liver be affected, a drachm of calomel may be added, and a blis-
tering application rubbed on the right side.
Should the lungs be inflamed, it will be proper to bleed and blister
the sides, or insert setons in the brisket. If the udder be affected, it
should be well and frequently fomented with hot water, and the milk
should be drawn with great care.
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PHARYNGITES SORE THROAT.
Inflammation of the respiratory passages is often confined to particu-
lar and to very small portions of them. The posterior part of the
mouth, the pharynx, through the funnel-shaped cavity of which the
food passes in order to arrive at the gullet, is peculiarly subject to
inflammation : it is recognized under the term sore throat, and is
usually accompanied with cough, and other symptoms of catarrh.
The characteristic symptoms are disinclination to food, suspension
of rumination, and difficulty in swallowing. .Solid food is either
dropped from the mouth when partly masticated, or it is forced down
by a painful effort; liquids are generally obstinately refused, or are
swallowed by a convulsive kind of gulp. There is tenderness extending
from ear to ear, and usually some degree of enlargement in
proportion to the inflammation of the neighboring parts, and especially
the parotid glands are involved. . Occasionally the irritation of the
pharynx produces constriction of its muscles, and a portion of the
food, both solid and fluid, is returned through the nostrils. The
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