258 The Cattle- Plague. 



all food requiriiiii mastication, and the very greatest cave to give everj-tliing 

 warm and fluid till the first and second stomachs have renewed their functions. 

 The medicines used with most advantage are belladonna, in 2 to 5 drop doses 

 of pure tincture, every two, three, or four hours, to subdue the general con- 

 gestion ; rhus toxicodendron, to allay the muscular twitchings ; caustic 

 ammonia, to abate tlie abdominal distension ; turpentine, to check hema- 

 turia ; phosphoric acid, mercurius solubilis, and arsenic, to control diarrhoea ; 

 mercurius corrosivus, to check dysentery ; and arsenic, to rally and buoy the 

 system about the fifth or sixth day." 



In connection with this Report it is observable that, up to the 

 20th December, Yorkshire was officially charged with 8640 cases 

 of rinderpest. Of these, 8 per cent, had been killed, 77 per cent, 

 had died, and 15 per cent, had recovered. On the 21st of 

 February the Association already named published a Report, 

 signed " Marlborough," in which we find the following 

 fie-ures : — 



During the reign of tlie poleaxe the valuable and so far successful 

 experiments of this body of gentlemen are postponed. 



Dr. Tucker having called attention to the experience of Pro- 

 fessor PoLl, of Alilan,* with the bisulphates of soda, potass, and 

 magnesia, " to neutralise all blood-poisons," they were tried at first 

 with some success, but latterly nothing has been heard about them. 

 Mr. Little, of Peterborough, and others, who gave them a fair trial, 

 do not report favourably either of them or the other drugs used. 

 Neither have the common remedies applied in typhus cases 

 availed — continuous animal food (beef-tea) and muriatic acid — 

 nor injections of opium, creosote, starch. Sesquichloride of iron, 

 and chalybeate waters of a kind said to be generally used with 

 great success in Poland, have not Avarranted the opinions formed 

 of them. Dr. Chapman's application of ice along the vertebral 

 column, so favourably marked in cholera cases at Southampton, 

 has scarcely perhaps received sufficient attention. Under the 

 supposition that it is the duty of the physician to recruit the blood 

 of the sickened animal — to re-supply its saline and alkaline con- 

 ditions, without which the vital power, the animal heat, and all 

 the powers of resistance to the pestilential poison must fail — Dr. 

 Tucker early recommended a mixture which has been used with 

 some good results, but not as a specific. The elements are — 

 bicarbonate soda, 1 oz. ; muriate soda, 1 oz. ; chlorate potass, 

 |- oz. ; Rochelle salt, 1 oz. ; dissolved in 1 gallon of water, 1 pint 

 administered alternate hours. Hyposulphate of soda has been 



* 2 dr. of bisulphate of soda recovered dogs attacked with glanders. 



