Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-30
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Greasy, remarked that from time immemo-
rial almost all the diseases which bovine
animals are subject to have been ascribed to
hOrn-aIl.' This Is an imaginary disease.
The lecturer exhibited horn with por-
ton of the skull attached. This was taken
from n creature no had known from q calf,
slaughtered at two and half years cid,
which never was sick day in its life. lie
had shown this specimen In many places.
and the believers in horn all would at once
say that it was an excellent specimen of
that disease. In this specimen the horny
envelope, or true horn. had been removed,
leaving the bone, which was sawn length
wise, exhibiting hollow at the base, ex-
tending up two-thrds of its length.
This bone, commonly called the "pith "
of the horn. is an off-shoot from the frontal
bone, and is protected by the dcrmal enyel-
opc or powder horn" which covers the
bony portion.
The hollow in the bone extends down
into the frontal bone of the skull. and is
simply an air cavity which extends from the
nostrlls up through the head and into the
horns. 1t Is possible that insects may, and
they sometimes do, pass through the nose
into the sinuses in the skull, and they may
even pass up into the cavity IN the horn.
The horn is kept warm by the blood pass
ing around it in set OF blood vessels lying
between the dermal or horny layer and the
bone and covering tho latter, as may be
seen where the horn has been slipped of.
When the animal ia young and growing
rapidly. plenty OF healthy blood flows to the
horn as to the other extremltles, and the
horn is warm. As the animal grows older
and the horn has more surface it becomes
cooler, because comparatively less blood
eiIculates there. In the process OF growth
portion of the centre OF the bone becomes
absorbed, leaving Il cavity Into this tho
cold air from the nOstrIl passes, helping to
cool the horn. The older the animal the
larger will be the hollow in the bone and
the colder will be the horn. Ignorant OF
these facts, many farmer, when his cow is
sick from any cause, first feels OF the horns.
to see if they are cold If they are found so,
they are assumed to be hollow. in cOnse-
quence OF disease and the next thing is to
bore the horn and put in vinegar and pep
per and salt, and what not, to cure
disease which does not exist; even now
halt the farmers in New England will deride
~ a scientific new tangled notion" the
statement that there is no such disease Us
''horn-ail." But the hollow horn Is nat
ural and healthy physiological condition OF
the cow, anu tHt III
forms n well known basis OF classification.
The rumlnants, or cud-chewing animals.
are divided into two casses-the solid and
the hollow horns. OF the first class the
deer is an example; OF the second our do
nestle cattle are an Illustration.
In cattle having short horns tho hollow
is smaller than in those with long horns ;
bulls have more solid horn than cows.
Animals having pastures poor in phos-
pilates will show the lack OF bOne-fOrming
material in the system, and will DO more
hollow horned than those having pasture
rich in phosphates. In such cases nature
will ondcuvUr to supply tho lack OF phOs-
pilates from the food by rc-absOrbing pOr-
tipns ot the lime from the more useless |
parts Of the system, such a. Is tho inner |
part Of these bones Ul the horn.
The "ChOcorua plague or "crIpple |
all" which prevails in New Hampshire |
near tho loot of the White Mountains. |
arises from this cause. While somewhat
similar to the human disease known as
ricketts,, it differs from ricketts, in this,
that the osScOus or bOny matter has
become more or less absorbed away from
tho system, while III ricketts,, It Is not de-
posted at all. These bone troubles will DO
luuni in localities lacking in phosphate.
" Inch will lie indicated by the cattle seek
Ing and chewing bones, and such cattle
turned into good clover Pastures or led with
bone meal, will recover every time.
Matter IN the horn has been considered
to be another unlailmg symptom OF horn
al IN its worst typ. This IL the cOnsc-
iuence of catarrhal trouble. affecting the
cavities in the head. and extending some
times up into the cavities of the horn and
it should be treated rs n catarrh.
We are told by the quacks, ms curious
circumstance, that horn all commences ut
The end of the tail. When the skin
becomes loose over the bone OF the tail,
they say the animal has, or will soon have.
horn all. Now the tail bone ends Il carti-
age like the snapper on whip lash. II
his gets hurt and inflammation takes place
.bsOrptlOn IL likely II follow, and II there
: u lack of phuSphatcs in the food. 1t will
70 on till large amount vi the bone OF the
all Is taken up.
The professor related case. where he was
allied 10 see II sick COW tho local cow doc
or had also been called, and they arrived at
he same time. They went to the stable.
{ was nearly dark Had there was hardly
Ight enough to see tho COW but the COW
Iuctor rushed in and seized her tau, and
liter short examination SAID Just as |
xprcted,- very bed case OF horn all,
hen gong forward to feel whether her
lorns were not cold he found she was a
mooley" having No horns But even this
circumstance did not floor
i'm, Well" sand he. :" she would have
,ai horn all, If she had had any horns :"
he remedy Tor the ehuGOrua plague
md l.r all troubles arising from deficiency
Il bon, making material III the food, il 10
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