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Article XXIX. 



InflriiBions for the Prevention and Cure of the 

 Epizooty, or Contagious Diftemper amo?ig 

 Horned Cattle, 



[Tranflated from the French of Monf. De Salve, Apothecary to 

 the Prince Bilhop of Liege^ by Mr. Moreau, of Bath. 



FARMERS have no need to be informed, how 

 important a matter the prefervation of their 

 cattle is. The confiderable advantages they reap 

 from them when free from accidents, and the loflfes 

 they fiifFer when diftempers fpread among their 

 herds, are fufficient motives to make them feel 

 the intereft they have in preferving their cow- 

 hoiifes, ftables, &c. from infection, and in nfing 

 all poflible means to prevent its progrefs. But as 

 fatal experience has proved that the life of medi- 

 cines, with the powers of which they were not 

 well acquainted, has been frequently more prejudi- 

 cial than falutary in the Epizooty; and that coun- 

 try people, by placing an unlimited confidence 

 in pretended fpecifics, purchafed at a very high 

 price, have very often been drawn into a double 

 lofs, by the death of their cattle, as well as the ex- 

 pence of fuch drugs; it is thought the communica- 

 tion of an efficacious and cheap manner of treating 



cattle 



