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FARMING INDEX - OLD FARM PRACTICES AND REMEDIES FOR ANIMALS, PLANTS AND FIXING THINGS.
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DISEASES OF THE LIVER.
The liver of the ox is situated on the right side, be tween the third stomach and the diaphragm. Unlike the liver of the horse, it is provided with a gall-bladder large enough to contain several ounces of bile. The bile is liable to become thickened and form calculi as large as a walnut. These are sometimes discharged in the feces, and the pain they cause is thus distinguished from colic
Anything that interferes with the secretion of bile may cause
JAUNDICE (THE YELLOWS).
Jaundice is easily distinguished by the yellow color of the skin and membranes and the many other signs of disorder which accompany it. But it must not be con founded with the yellowness caused by certain foods.
See page 133.
Remedy.—Small quantity of laxative, digestible food. Purge with sulphate of magnesium (Epsom salt), 16 oz., powdered aloes, 8 drams, powdered ginger, ˝ oz., mixed with a pint of warm water or gruel.
Draft : Chloride ammonium, 4 drams, bicarbonate pot assium, 1 oz., ginger, 4 drams, in pint of warm water, twice daily.
Anything that interferes with the secretion of bile may also cause
INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.
A good draft for inflammation of the liver is : Sul phate sodium, 16 oz., caraway seed, 1 oz., in pint warm
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THE DISEASES OF CATTLE.
water, repeated next day if necessary. A 1-dram dose of calomel may be given next day instead of the draft, and half that dose for several days afterward.
Another draft : Tincture aconite (V. P.), 40 drops, chlo ride ammonium. 6 drams, spirit nitrous ether, 1 fluid oz., water in proportion, 3 times daily till fever abates. Then omit aconite.
Draft for Torpid Liver: Diluted nitro-hydrochloric acid, 4 fluid drams, spirit chloroform, ˝ fluid oz., tinc ture euonymin, 1 fluid oz., water in proportion.
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