490 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



might observe pustules break out, on the fifth or sixth days, all 

 over the neck and fore parts. Some cattle were raging mad on 

 the first day; such were necessarily killed: some dropped down 

 suddenly ; others died on the third ; most on the sixth or seventh ; 

 very few alive on the fourteenth day. Before death, the horns 

 and dugs grew remarkably cold. 



Cure. The method of treating the cattle, recommended by 

 Dr. Brocklesby, is as follows: Before the cattle are seized, he ad- 

 vises two setons or pegs to be put deep in the dewlap, and into the 

 under part of the neck; and, immediately upon refusing fodder, 

 the beasts should have three quarts of blood taken away; and 

 after twelve hours, two quarts more; after the next twelve 

 hours, about three pints may be let out ; and, after the following 

 twelve hours, diminish a pint of blood from the quantity taken 

 away at the preceding blood-letting; lastly, about a single pint 

 should be taken away in less than twelve hours after the former 

 bleeding, so that when the beast has been bled five times, in the 

 manner here proposed, the worst symptoms will, it is hoped, 

 abate; but if the difficulty and panting for breath continue very 

 great, he sees no reason against repeated bleeding; or at least 

 against taking away the fifth time, instead of a single pint, twice 

 that quantity. 



In the meantime, the setons or pegs should be daily promoted 

 to suppuration by moving the cord; and the cattle should have 

 as much bran water as they chose to drink lukewarm. This 

 should be made a little tart or sourish, either with common vine- 

 gar or spirit of vitriol: and immediately after the first bleeding, 

 they should have the following drench:* 



Nitre, ....... 1 ounce and a half, 



Honey, ...... 2 ounces, 



Camphor, . . . . . . .1 drachm and a half, 



Water gruel, ...... 1 quart. 



It is rather surprising that this same treatment, with a trifling 

 variation in the internal medicine, is also recommended by Mr. 

 Feron, as the result of his own experience, in what he terms the 

 general inflammation of cattle. 



* When the disease has once settled itself in the system, all " drenches," or other 

 medicaments are useless most of all, this everlasting " bleeding," which, if under- 

 taken at all by the above directions, had better not stop until the suffering beast is 

 relieved by death. L. F. A. 



