2G0 The Cattlc-Flarjnc. 



represents the Polish treatment to consist of a plentiful supply of 

 water, acidulated with sulphuric acid ; spirits of wine with 

 tincture of opium three times a day ; sulphate of quinine in pep- 

 permint water, or a solution of nitric acid ; the nose and mouth 

 being washed with vinegar. The Medical COMMISSION OF 

 Holland, considering the malady to be typhus contayiosus 

 Jouwm, recommends the infected cattle to be treated with from 

 3 to 4 dr. of muriatic acid, mixed with 6 oz. of treacle and 

 decoction of linseed. 



The Edinburgh Medical Committee, who by the way "r/e- 

 jjrecate and pjvtest ayainst indiscriminate slauyhter,'^ recommend 

 that the disease be treated with a view to cure. In common with 

 the Homocopathists and most of the authorities here named, they 

 depend more upon nursing and diet to sustain the vital powers, 

 while they Avage war with the invader, then upon medicinal 

 agents, to repel it. Summarising the highly practical document 

 issued by them, we find that the diseased animals should be placed 

 in a warm well-ventilated byre, temperature 70^, and carefully 

 rubbed down and covered with a warm rug ; that warm drinks of 

 gruel, bran-tea, or hay-tea, be copiously administered, as the only 

 food suited for the early stage ; with cold water to drink ad 

 libitum. Stimulant diuretics and diajohoretics to be also admi- 

 nistered, to act on the skin and kidneys, to relieve internal con- 

 gestions, and to eliminate the poison. Dr. Smart's dose, 2 oz. 

 of acetated water of ammonia, 1 oz. of sweet spirits of nitre, and 

 6 dr. of carbonate of ammonia, in 9 oz. of water, three times daily. 

 The bowels to be relieved by Professor Dick's dose — 16 ozs. lin- 

 seed oil, and a mutchkin of whiskey ; or Dr. Smart's dose — 2 oz. 

 of sulphur, 1 oz. of nitre, and 1 oz. of powdered ginger, 1 lb. of 

 treacle, and 1 (|uart of water. These to be repeated till effectual. 

 For diarrhoea Professor Dick's dose — 1 quart of liine-water, ^ oz. 

 of laudanum three times daily, and 6 dr. of carbonate ammonia 

 three times daily. To promote convalescence i- oz. of sulphate of 

 iron twice daily, or Dr. Smart's dose, Ih oz. of powdered chinchona. 

 Professor Simonds, who considers the stomachs in no condition 

 to deal with any medicines, would condemn such insoluble 

 medicines, I should suppose, as sulphur, ginger, and powdered 

 chinchona. In his Lecture on the Cattle-Plague, to be found 

 p. 270 seqq. of this Journal, it Avill be seen that he refers 

 to several cases in which total starvation for some days has 

 wrought cures that would not have been likely to have attended 

 treatment. There are cases of groups of affected animals acci- 

 dentally left in confinement and forgotten which have recovered, 

 and others in which animals reserved for the knacker have re- 

 covered before that hard-worked functionary could knock them 

 on the head, and still others in which animals have escaped before 



