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tion, producing a fomentation and gradual cooling ot the whole 

 surface, modifying her fever, and generally producing relief at 

 once. It is well to wet and rub, gently, her back, hips and 

 flanks. As often as this blanket begins to dry, water should be 

 poured in as before, until the fever passes away, when the 

 blanket may be taken off and the cow gently chafed with a dry 

 cloth till the hair is dry. Moderately cool water should be given 

 her to drink, but no effort made to stimulate her appetite, which 

 will return when nature calls for food. Let it ever be remem- 

 bered, that this treatment, and all treatment of sick animals, 

 should be performed in the gentlest manner. Let roughness and 

 cruelty be monopolized by the butcher, and never used by the 

 herdsman. If this fever should occur in cold weather, a dry 

 blanket may be put over the wet one, to keep the heat from 

 passing off too rapidly, but if the fever should be high, there 

 will be no danger of this. 



"Since writing the foregoing, Mr. George A. Moore, of Buf- 

 falo, stated to us, in confirmation of our treatment for milk 

 fever, that finding a cow in the worst stages of this fever, and 

 quite unable to stand, he directed her to be frequently and 

 thoroughly washed, and covered with a blanket to keep the evap- 

 oration from being too rapid, and that 'it worked to a charm,' as 

 he phrased it, the cow soon recovering her usual strength and 

 milk. 



"The reader will readily see how this treatment may be 

 applied to other fevers and inflammations. In what is called 

 common, or simple fever, the same application should be made. 

 In inflammation of the lungs, a similar application may be made 

 to the chest, and in all cases of fevers and inflammation, injec- 

 tions should be freely used ; they answer in all cases much bet- 

 ter than the drug purgative. In diarrhoea, the injection is valu- 

 able, where a change of food is not sufficient to correct it, as it 



