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in such as recovered ; and these soon chewed their 

 cud again, and tasted of fodder, which they had be- 

 fore absolutely refused through the whole disease. 

 All that had not the looseness before the third day 

 died. The urine was very high-coloured, and in 

 smaller quantities. The degree of fever was ob- 

 served very high ; upon the third day the pulse 

 beat near a hundred times in a minute, whereas the 

 ingenious Dr. Hales found a sound ox's artery not 

 to exceed thirty-eight pulses in the same time. At 

 different intervals, after the attack, they all laboured 

 under a prodigious difficulty and panting for breath; 

 some suffered these after the first day, others not 

 before the third. But this disorder suffered remis- 

 sions, and seemed to be augmented towards evening 

 and at night. Several beasts discharged, towards 

 the fourth or fifth day, when ill, a very great quan- 

 tity of a frothy liquor from the mouth and eyes ; 

 others ran actually purulent matter from the nos- 

 trils. As the disorder advanced, the eyes sunk 

 more in their orbits, and some were observed to be 

 quite blind. Towards the conclusion, the fore parts 

 of the body, and particularly the glands about the 

 head, were prodigiously swelled, and several beasts 

 had a universal emphysema, or crackling of air be- 

 neath their skin ; those that were not blooded, 

 equally with such as were. Frequently one 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 neces- 

 sarily killed ; some dropped down suddenly ; others 

 died on the third, most on the sixth or seventh, very 

 few alive to the fourteenth day : before death the 

 horns and dugs grew remarkably cold. 



Causes. — The causes and nature of this disease 

 have not been exactly ascertained. Some have sup- 

 posed it connected with a peculiar state of the at- 

 mosphere, and that it did not originate in contagion. 

 Many considered the principal causes of the disease 



