Drinks Or Drenches

Note. - The peculiar structure of the digestive organs in cattle renders it proper to give their medicines in a liquid form. For the same reason, drenches should be given very slowly, so as to enter at once the third or fourth stomach. It is only in cases of hoven or blown, that it is desirable to introduce medicine into the first stomach or rumen.

For treatment of the Cattle Plague of 1865, see p. 125.

Purging And Laxative Drenches

These are given when fever exists, or is threatened; to prevent downfalls of the udder; after calving, to prevent milk-fever; to remove undue accumulations in costiveness; in the first stage of red-water, and jaundice; and in all inflammatory complaints.

1. Epsom salts 8 oz., sulphur 4 oz., ginger 2 drs., warm water a pint, linseed oil 12 oz. - Spooner.

2. Epsom salts 6 or 8 oz., castor oil 8 oz., gruel 1 1/2 pint, ginger 1/2 oz.

3. Glauber's or Epsom salts 16 oz. (or in bad cases with fever, 24 oz.), caraways 1 oz., warm gruel a quart. - Clater.

4. Castor oil from 16 to 24 oz., with gruel; but it is not to be depended on.

5. To No. 3, add 2 or 3 drs. of gamboge, or 4 drs. of aloes.

6. Sulphur 8 oz., ginger 1/2 oz., warm gruel a quart: in rheumatism, or joint-fellon. - Clater.

7. Common salt 6 oz., flour of mustard a tablespoonful, grated ginger or ground pepper, of either, a teaspoonful, gin 1/2 pint, water 2 pints.

8. Common salt 1 warm water, or gruel, q. s. The last three are only proper where there is not much fever.

9. In Red-water. Sulphate of magnesia 8 to 16 oz., sulphur 2 to 6 oz., carbonate of ammonia 1/2 oz., ginger 1/2 oz., warm water q. s.; a fourth of this every 6 hours till the bowels are sufficiently acted on. - Spooner.

10. When the last does not operate. Calomel 20 grs., yeast 1/2 pint. - Harris.

11. Aloes 4 to 6 dr., common salt 4 to 6 oz., ginger 1 to 3 drs., water a quart, anodyne tincture 2 oz.: in red-water. - White.

12. Cordial Purgatives. Aloes 4 drs., Epsom salts 4 oz., ginger 1 dr., carminative tincture 2 oz., water 1 quart. - White.

13. In the commencement of puerperal or milk fever. Epsom salts 6 or 8 oz., powdered croton seeds 20 to 30 grs., ginger 4 drs.; in 3 or 4 pints of gruel: repeat in 6 hours, if required, without the croton seeds. - Blaine.

14. In locked jaw. Barbadoes aloes 1 1/2 oz., powdered croton kernel 10 grs., boiling water q. s.; given when cool. - Clater.

15. Mild laxative and tonic. Epsom salts 1/2 sulphur 4 to 6 oz., ginger 1/2 oz., gentian 1/2 oz., warm water q. s. - Eveson.

16. In flatulent colic with costiveness. Aloes 1 1/2 oz., carbonate of potash 3 drs., ginger 1/2 oz., warm water 1 pint, linseed oil 8 oz. - White.

17. Palm oil 16 oz., Glauber's salts 12 oz., boiling water q. s. - Peck.

18. Laxative drink for cows that are kept on hay. Aloes 4 drs., ginger 1 1/2 drs., water a quart, Epsom salts 6 oz., carbonate of soda 1/2 oz.; for one dose. - Youatt.