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THE CHOLERA-THE CATTLE PLAGIIE-THE HOG 

 CHOLERA-THE TPJCHINIS. 



In the February report we asked the attention of the public to one matter 

 relative to the first two of these diseases, namely, the numerous ways in which 

 their atomic particles are disseminated. This was done for two purposes — to in- 

 vite from the legislation of the country such powers as would be necessary to 

 meet the rinderpest, if it, unfortunately, should be introduced into the United 

 States, and to induce on the part of individuals prompt action in aiding the en- 

 forcement of these powers, ana such care on their part as would protect them- 

 selves from these diseases. 



Although the consideration of human diseases does not come within the province 

 of this department; yet, where such consideration serves to more fully unfold the 

 character of the cattle plague, and at the same time aids the farmer to protect 

 himself and family, it is proper to refer to diseases destritctive to him and them. 

 And when such a disease as cholera, so fatal in past years, again threatens him, 

 it is a duty we owe to him and his pursuit to call his attention to a few simple 

 facts, that may serve to prevent that imprudent course of self-treatment by 

 which so many lost their lives in former visitations of this epidemic. And by 

 so doing, we will move him to a greater interest, to a more prompt and efficient 

 action, in diseases which affect his stock. In resuming, therefore, our comments 

 on the diseases which are embraced in this article, we state briefly the symptoms 

 of the diseases, and the remedies most efScient and available. 



I. CHOLERA. 



In what we may have to say of this disease, we confine our remarks to such 

 course of treatment as will aid the farmer to a self-treatment until he can secure 

 medical aid. His remoteness from town in so rapid a disease is often fatal, when 

 not aided by judicious self-treatment. 



1. Symptoms of cholera. — Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health, (January 

 number, 186G,) has published a most excellent article on cholera. We take from it 

 these brief extracts, hoping, however, that all who can obtain that number will 

 procure it. Usually the first symptoms is a looseness of the bowels, accom- 

 panied by a constant uneasiness, and soon marked by a rapidly increasing weak- 

 ness. This is our personal experience of the disease m 1832. 



" The term 'looseness,' " says Dr. Hall, " as applied to Asiatic cholera as a pre- 

 monitory symptom, is simply this : if in cholera times a man passes from his 

 bowels, even but a single time, a dirty, lightish-colored fluid, of consistence and 

 appearance, a few feet distant, of a mixture of half-and-half milk and water, 

 that is a premonition of cholera begun, and he will be dead in perhaps twenty- 

 four hours at farthest ; and as the passages become less frequent and of a darker 

 or greener or thicker nature, there is hope of life. It does not require two such 

 passages to make a looseness ; one such is a looseness, and a very dangerous 

 one. Nor dees it require a gallon in quantity; a single table-spoonful, if it 

 weakens, is the alarm-bell of death in cholera times." 



