. The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies : including horses, cattle, cows, sheep, swine, fowls, dogs, etc. .... -^. POSITIONS ASSUMED BY CATTLE IV DISEASE. Pleura-Pneumonia. 273 Department of Agriculture in 1871, joins in absolute con-demnation of purgatives and bleeding. If the case is seenand attended to early in the disease, he believes its progressmay be checked by active internal astringents. He placesthe whole herd in which the malady has appeared on regu-lar daily doses of sulphate of iron, allomng about half adrachm to a drachm to a bullock, mixed with an equalamo


. The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies : including horses, cattle, cows, sheep, swine, fowls, dogs, etc. .... -^. POSITIONS ASSUMED BY CATTLE IV DISEASE. Pleura-Pneumonia. 273 Department of Agriculture in 1871, joins in absolute con-demnation of purgatives and bleeding. If the case is seenand attended to early in the disease, he believes its progressmay be checked by active internal astringents. He placesthe whole herd in which the malady has appeared on regu-lar daily doses of sulphate of iron, allomng about half adrachm to a drachm to a bullock, mixed with an equalamount of bruised coriander seeds, given in some bran,the better to disgiiise the iron. Prof. Gamgee has uniformlyfound its use followed by a mitigation of the cough and adisappearance of the disease in the herd. When the case has progressed to the second stage of themalady, he believes that light but nutritious food, coj)iouswarm water injections, and the use of a stimulant, such ashalf an ounce of carbonate of ammonia in a quart of lin-seed tea, two or three times a day, the most hopeful jilan. But when the lung is already filled an


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