The Caftlc-Plafjue. 2(jl 



the blow fell, to the woods or elsewhere, and unmolested have 

 come off victors from the internal contest. The treatment that 

 has created the greatest excitement is that which IVIr. AVoi;MS 

 found to be effectual amongst his own cattle in Ceylon. It has 

 no pretension to the rank of a specific, but possesses the merit of 

 a sensible and practicable remedy. 



The medicine consists of 1 lb. pickling onions, 1 lb. garlic, 

 pulped and mixed with 1 lb. ground ginger ; a decoction from 

 5 lb, of assafcctida, enough water being used to cover . it, is 

 poured over the whole mass, which is stirred with 8 quarts of 

 rice-water, and when cool, suffices for 14 full-grmvn animals, 

 the dose being 1^ pint for an ox, ^ for a heifer, | for a calf. 

 Mr. Worms lays special stress upon early application. The first 

 indications of the change of breath should be watched, and the 

 medicine should be followed up with nothing more than rice- 

 gruel for several days. 



Lord Leigh honours me Avith a letter relative to the success 

 of this medicine at Stoneleigh, in which he says that Mr.'Worms 

 professes only to be able to detect and arrest the rinderpest in 

 its first stages. 



At the end of Februarv, Baron Rothschild's herd at Mentmore 

 being attacked, Mr, Worms commenced his treatment, for some 

 time apparently with success, but the pest returned upon those 

 that were accounted conA'alescent, and proved terribly malignant.* 

 On the 16th March there remained of that fine herd of 119 only 

 66 animals. 



Before leaving this section I will further observe that it is 

 generally considered that the salts of soda and magnesia in the 

 Ibrm of sulphites (readily soluble in water) if abundantly in- 

 troduced into the blood, wall prove the means of warding off 

 the accession of the disease altogether. Dr. Smart recommends 

 its administration in 2-oz, doses daily to adult animals, and \\ 

 to those younger. After a fortnight's treatment, with a rest of 

 24 hours in the middle, the exhibition of the medicine should 

 be suspended for 24 hours every third day. There are several 

 instances of herds so fortified that have kept at bay the plague 

 which raged around them. 



It must not be considered that space has been abused by con- 

 taining details of treatment which has been superseded by a 

 swifter specific. I cannot but think that we shall fall back 

 upon remedial and curative measures, which, if sought in 

 the right spirit, Avill never long be denied to the scientific in- 

 vestigator. It is, therefore, desirable to state what has been 

 done, for herein are the clues for future experimenters. In 



* See Editor's cote to Mr. Simonds' Lecture on the Cattle-Plague, p, 27S. 



