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brought to the Dee-side in Kincardineshire , and is always fatal.Sometimes the cattle affected become furious,and die apparent-ly mad*. This distemper is said to have sometimes appearedamong the cattle in Jed forest, where it is known by the nameof mad loup. The remedy used there, is to kindle a fire oftwigs of ash-trees, and to drive the animal frequently throughthe smoke, covering it afterwards with a blanket. The crug-gles affects young cattle with convulsive motions in theirlimbs, and the animal soon becoming unable to stand, diesseemingly of pure weakness f. A similar, or perhaps thesame disease, is known in some parts of the coast of Moray-shire, where it has the name of the “ croichlys” The youngcattle, from the second year, are liable to it, and it is mostfatal to cows. “ At first, one apprehends a dislocation inthe hip-joint; while attending to that, the other leg is disco-vered to be in the same state, and in a short time, the lamenessappears to be in all the legs.” It is cured, by removing thepatient to upland pasture, or keeping it in the house onmown grass, and giving a drink of warm water-gruel, with ahandful of salt, and an ounce of flour of sulphur J. Thescab or itch, sometimes, though rarely, affects cattle. Mer-curial ointment, or a solution of the corrosive sublimate ofmercury is an effectual cure; but under these medicines, theanimal must be kept warm, and have laxative food, alongwith purgatives. The same application will destroy vermin,which sometimes infest cattle badly fed, or from othercauses in an unthriving state. The yellows is a disorderbttle known in Scotland ; and coughing may be removed,it is said, by forcing the animal to swallow a new-laid hen’se gg, and a pint of tar §. The dry-murrain, in which theanimal is extremely costive, has been cured by laxative

• Kincardineshire Report, p. 384.

^ Morayshire Report, p. SIS.

J Parkinson on Live-Stock, vol. i, p. 240.

f Ibid.