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found ill a state of mortification, and others in suppuration, or both 

 states are found in the same organ. It may be well to remark here, 

 that the same train of symptoms does not always follow a state of in- 

 flammation, or, in other words, the train of symptoms depends some- 

 what on the part affected, or on the office the diseased organ sustains 

 in the system. This difference is partly in degree, partly in the ra- 

 pidity by which a termination is produced. Each organ is to be 

 considered as a part of the whole, and connected with the general 

 system by peculiar sympathies, and each organ in itself as the centre 

 of this train. Now an organ being diseased, its functions are not only 

 deranged, but the functions of some other part are deranged also. 

 Knowing, therefore, the functions of a part, we may know generally 

 whether those functions are deranged ; but it is not so easy to deter- 

 mine whether the derangement is primary or secondary, primary or 

 sympathetic. But the course to be pursued, is not so obscure ; for 

 the nature of inflammation is the same in all organs, and its results 

 the same ; and it is an established rule that the general treatment is 

 the same. The simplification of treatment, in this way, is of great 

 importance, and is particularly well adapted to the simplicity of the 

 diseases of cattle. We have not to be on the lookout for particular 

 remedies in each case, so long as we are in possession of general 

 principles to guide us. A milder state of inflammation than what has 

 been described already, is characterized by dulness, dryness of the 

 muzzle, ceasing to graze or ruminate ; increase of heat at the root of 

 the horn, and increase of the number of pulsations in the artery, 

 which will vary from 40 to SO in a minute, according to the severity 

 of the disease. We are to estimate the immediate danger, by the 

 departure from a healthy state ; by this we are to proportion or grad- 

 uate the activity of the means of cure. In cattle, as in man, after 

 the active stage of the disease is past, tonics may occasionally be use- 

 ful to restore the stomach to a proper standard of action. But this 

 class of remedies is much less useful than is generally supposed, and in 

 the milder forms of disease, if the first treatment has been proper, they 

 will not be needed. Those of the most value, both as it regards 

 safety and restorative qualities ai-e the cold infusions of columbo, 

 gentian, eupalorium, or boneset, to which may be added ginger, if 



