. are common to all animals. This part of our work is devoted to the explanation and treatment of the various diseases affecting the ox, to- gether with an account of the diseases incident to milch cows and young calves. Cattle diseases are, in many particulars, similar to those of the horse. Thus inflam- mation, irritation and fever, Still, however, there are many diseases affecting cattle, in which Ave fail to find a counter- part in any disease attacking horses. Among such diseases we may mention those of contagious typhus, or rinderjjest; epizootic aphtha, or the murrain; splenie apoplexy
. are common to all animals. This part of our work is devoted to the explanation and treatment of the various diseases affecting the ox, to- gether with an account of the diseases incident to milch cows and young calves. Cattle diseases are, in many particulars, similar to those of the horse. Thus inflam- mation, irritation and fever, Still, however, there are many diseases affecting cattle, in which Ave fail to find a counter- part in any disease attacking horses. Among such diseases we may mention those of contagious typhus, or rinderjjest; epizootic aphtha, or the murrain; splenie apoplexy and quarter evil, or the black leg. The manner or mode of treating disease in the ox differs no more from that employed in the case of the horse, than one disease differs from another. For it must be remem- bered by every person Avho undertakes to give medicine to an ox or a cow, that they have four stomachs—1, the rumen, or paunch; 2, the reticulum; 3, the mamjplus; 4, the abomasum. For this reason, or, as it were, peculiarity, cows or oxen should, under every condition, be ti'eated 243
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