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376] be strained, and incorporated with 4 oz. of treacle, and a pint of linseed, or any common oil.

After such clyster has been injected, it will be necessary to administer two or three purges, each consisting of $1 1⁄2$ oz. of pulverized Indian rhubarb; 2 drams of saffron; and 6 drams of socotrine aloes, mixed with syrup of buckthorn; which ought to be given once in 48 hours: on the intermediate days, the following balls and drink should be introduced between each dose: Take half an ounce of Æthiops mineral; a similar quantity of millepedes; and 1 oz. of Castile soap: let them be formed into a ball, and washed down with a decoction made of 4 oz. of madder-root; the same weight of turmeric; half a pound of the sliced roots of burdock; 4 ounces of Monk's rhubarb; and 2 ounces of sliced liquorice: these ingredients must be boiled in one gallon of forge-water, till one quart be evaporated; when the liquor should be strained, and sweetened with honey.

By this treatment, the violence of the disease will generally abate in the course of a week, or ten days; a change which may be ascertained by the eyes and mouth losing part of their yellow cast; though it will be advisable to continue the medicine above directed, till such colour totally disappear: when the animal is in a state of recovery, a few purges (see ) should be given, and he ought to be moderately exercised, in order to recruit his exhausted strength.  YELLOWS, a disorder affecting, which, if it be not timely attended to, will induce the , and other fatal distempers.

Symptoms:—Every morning, a general tremor over the animal, particularly in the hinder legs, loins, and thighs; the eye-lids appear hollow; the whole body assumes a yellow cast; the nose is dry; and, if the creature have taken a severe cold, the ears hang down; the dewlap, shoulders, and loins swell; the udders of cows become tumefied, and produce little milk; which, in a few days, acquires a peculiarly yellow tinge, coagulating when boiled; and, lastly, the fore-teeth become so loose as to be in danger of dropping out.—It will be necessary to observe these symptoms with accuracy, and particularly that first mentioned; because, if they remain unnoticed for a few days, the disease will settle on some of the interior parts, and be followed by uncommon weakness, wheezing, dropsy, or other fatal distemper.

This malady is conjectured to proceed from the folds, in the inner membrane of the neck of the gall-bladder, becoming too weak to perform their functions; so that the bile, instead of being conveyed into the intestines, preternaturally forces itself into the biliary ducts, whence it passes through the vena porta, and mixes again with the blood: hence, that fluid acquires a corrosive quality, becomes thick or sizy, and consequently circulates slowly throughout the system.—From such disorganization, the livers of the diseased animals are incapacitated from performing their functions, so that the supply of bile is inadequate to the quantity thus unnaturally expended; and the blood concretes in different parts of the body, forming painful tumors, both internally and externally.—This distemper is most to be