_Treatment._--In the inflammatory stage, warm teas of marshmallows, or slippery elm, and poultices of the same, are the best means yet known to reduce it; they relax constricted or obstructed organs, and by being directly applied to the parts affected, the more speedily and effectually is the object accomplished. Two or three applications of some relaxing poultice will be all that is needed; after which, apply Olive oil, or goose grease, 1 gill. Spirits of camphor, 1 ounce. Oil of cedar, 1 ounce. Vinegar, half a gill. Mix. _Another._ Pyroligneous acid, 2 ounces. Beef's gall, 1 gill. Cayenne, 1 tea-spoonful. To be rubbed around the throat as occasion may require. All hard or indigestible food will be injurious. LOSS OF CUD. Loss of Cud is a species of indigestion, and may be brought on by the animal's eating greedily of some food to which it has been unaccustomed. Loss of cud and loss of appetite are synonymous. _Compound for Loss of Cud._ Golden seal, powdered, 1 ounce. Caraway, " 2 ounces. Cream of tartar, half an ounce. Powdered poplar bark, 2 ounces. Mix. Divide into six powders, and give one every four hours in a sufficient quantity of camomile tea. COLIC. Colic is occasioned by a want of physiological power in the organs of digestion, so that the food, instead of undergoing a chemico-vital process, runs into fermentation, by which process carbonic acid gas is evolved. _Symptoms._--The animal is evidently in pain, and appears very restless; it occasionally turns its head, with an anxious gaze, to the left side, which seems to be distended more than the right; there is an occasional discharge of gas from the mouth and anus. _Treatment._--Give the following carminative:-- Powdered aniseed, half a tea-spoonful. " cinnamon, " " To be given in a quart of spearmint tea, and repeated if necessary. _Another._ Powdered assafoetida, half a tea-spoon. Thin gruel of slippery elm, 2 quarts. Oil of aniseed, 20 drops. To be given at a dose. If the animal suffers much pain, apply fomentations to the belly, and give the following injection:-- Powdered ginger, half an ounce. Common salt, 1 table-spoonful. Hot water, 1 gallon. SPASMODIC COLIC.