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ago*iu clanger of being devastated by the rinderpest, is now entirely free from 

 that disease, and that tliis result is attributed by bis lordsbip to tbe use of tbe. 

 following formula : 



"Equal portions of onion, sbalot, and garlic. Peel tliem and pound them 

 together, so that they may be reduced to a fine pulp. Add to this about one- 

 third of their weight of ground ginger. Take asafoetida about two-thirds of 

 the weight of the ginger ; pour sufficient water over it to cover it, and allow it 

 to boil, stirring it all the time, so that little or no sediment remains ; pour the 

 liquid, which should be over the pulp, and mix thoroughly. Boil some rice in 

 water until it is thoroughly soft, and add the rice-water to the mixture, so that 

 the former may be one and a half times in excess of the latter ; mix thoroughly, 

 and allow the whole to cool. 



" Dose. — For a fall-gVown animal, a good pint ; for a heifer, a good half pint ; 

 for a calf, rather less than half pint. Medicine to be given the moment the 

 animal's breath is tainted, and should be repeated in twenty-four hours in very 

 bad cases. Should the animal's bowels be confined after twelve hours, and the 

 stomach swollen, administer to a full-grown animal half a pound, to a calf quarter 

 of a pound, of fresh unsalted lard, made into boluses. If the mouth should be 

 sore, wet it with a pulp made of Seville orange peel boiled. 



" Diet. — Two hours after medicine the animal to be fed with two or three 

 pints of rice gruel, and during two days nothing else than rice gruel and a 

 little sweet hay." 



" His lordship has informed several of the principal veterinary surgeons in 

 Warwickshire of the successful treatment of his cattle with this recipe, and is now 

 in Cheshire, where the cattle plague is raging with great virulence, for the 

 purpose of having the formula tried there. Of course it would be premature to 

 pronounce any opinion at present; but we sincerely hope that Lord Leigh, who 

 is as energetic as he is popular as lord lieutenant of Warwickshire, may have 

 found the means of arresting the dreadful scourge with which the country has been 

 visited, and with which it continues to be so seriously threatened. Lord Leigh 

 lost twenty-two head of cattle before he was put in possession of the means of 

 curing the disease." 



Wishing, but not hoping,* that this remedy may prove a cure indeed, we turn 

 to that which to us promises a better hope for success, namely, a preventive. 



PREVENTIVES. 



These are of two kinds — those which render the animal proof against the 

 effect of the poison of the disease, and those which prevent the poison from a 

 contact with it. 



Of the former preventives we propose to consider, first, such as destroy the life 

 of the poison, or its power to propagate itself; and second, such as will destroy 

 the liability of the animal to contract the disease. The first embraces all the 

 disinfectants ; the second, vaccination and inoculation. 



Whether we regard the atomic particle of poison as a germ capable of repro- 

 ducing itself, as seeds reproduce the vegetables from which they spring, or as a 

 poison resulting from a perverted secretion of the body, which by chemical 

 change converts a healthy secretion into its own poisonous nature, all have ever 



*Tbe Agricultural Gazette (London) of Febraary 24, ten days later, and which has been 

 received since the foregoinf? was written, says: "The last new remedy, Mr. Woruis's onion 

 diet, notwithstanding the freciueut testimony which is still borne to its value in the colums 

 of the Times, was shown by Mr. Simonds to have been really ineffective iu some of the best 

 attested examples of its successful agency." 



