Page:Willich, A. F. M. - The Domestic Encyclopædia (Vol. 1, 1802).djvu/456

4^4] CAL The symptoms generally are, 1 . A colic more or less violent, which is often very severe and dangerous, especially when it is infectious. — This antecedent colic is terminat- ed, and the animal relieved, by a discharge taking place from the bowels ; but this is sometimes fa- tal before the shoote appears. 2. A loathing, and refusing of food, even previous to the evacuation, which increases and decreases in proportion to the violence and du- ration of the distemper. In this disorder, the cheapest, and perhaps the best medicine which has gene- rally been administered by several experienced breeders, is milk well mulled with eggs ; or eggs and flour properly mixed with oil, melt- ed butter, and mucilaginous roots, or seeds, such as linseed, aniseed, &c. But the most fatal of the va- rious diseases to which calves are sjubjecTj, is that denominated in Herefordshire.; the gut-lie, where it most commonly pre vails 3 the symp- toms of which are, a total stoppage in the bowels, except a copious dis- charge of blood and mucus, accom- panied by a violent fever, that oc- casions the affected animal to kick at its belly, lie down, and groan. This is the effect of an erroneous method of castration, which causes a stoppage in the bowels, and brings on mortification, and which in a few days proves fatal. The only safe mode of cure is, to make a perpendicular incision four inches under the third vertebra of the loins over the paunch, or stomach., and introduce the arm to rind the part affected, the beast being kept, if possible, in an ere& position, by the help of proper assistants. In order to remove the stoppage in the stomach occasioned by the tie, jnd to carry off the fever, four CAL ounces of Glauber's salts, two ounces of cream of tartar, and one ounce of senna, infused in two pints of boiling water, are given, to which are added halt a pound of olive oil ; the whole of this is worked off with gruel in which mallows and alder-bark have been infused. In order to avoid any far- ther detail of this and the preced- ing distempers, we must refer our readers to the third volume of Mr. Young's Annals of Agriculture, p. 200 — 2Q; and to the second volume, p. 98 — 104, of the Reper- tory of Arts and ManufaciurtS. Calf's Snout. See Lesser Snap- dragon. CALICO, a stuff or cloth of cotton, originally manufactured in India ; but, within the last twenty or thirty years, it has been imitated in Britain, and brought to great perfection, since the invention of machines for spinning cottcn. In the towns of Manchester, Glas- gow, Paisley, &c. many thousands of industrious hands are employed in the manufacture of this article ; which, according to its different degrees of fineness, is sold from rjd. to 6s. and upwards, a yard. Cotton cloth is an intermediate substance between that made of flax and animal wool 5 but by no means deserves to be commended as a substitute for flannel, next the skin. Calico imbibes and retains the perspired humors, unless it be as frequently changed as linen ; while flannel admits a free evaporation through its more numerous pores. CALKIXS are the prominent pafts at the extremity of a horse- shoe, bent downwards, and the edges blunted. They often occa- sion horses to trip, and sometimes also produce the bleyme, or an in- flammation in the foat between the sole