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scarcely necessary to add, that under these circumstances, 

 1 declined the purchase of a mate. So far from adding 

 to my stock, my attention was turned towards the pre- 

 servation of the remainder of my cattle. 



The lingering indisposition of one of my neighbour's 

 cattle enabled him more distinctly to mark the progress 

 of the disease. This steer, like mine, appeared languid, 

 refused fodder, dischi rged blood by the urinary passage,* 

 and some through the bowels, mixed with common dung. 

 A member of the family, the gendeman himself not being 

 then at heme, stated that the steer first diseased was bled, 

 immediately on the discovery of indisposition, and 

 that he almost instandy expired. Glauber's salts, nitre, 

 cream of tartar, and drenches of black snake-root, were 

 administered to the other, but he fell a victim to the 

 disease. 



By my informant, I was recommended to a farmer who 

 had some experience in the nature of the complaint, if 

 really the bloody murrain. I was so fortunate as to meet 

 with this gendeman, who said that in the autumn of 1817, 

 several of his cattle were attacked by a complaint which 

 he presumed to be the bloody murrain ; that after losing 

 two steers, he succeeded in saving the life of a third, 

 which had been most certainly seized with a complaint 

 similar to that of the deceased steers ; that each exhi- 

 bited signs of great dejection, loss of apj^etite, debility of 

 limbs, &.C. ; that each discharged blood through the 

 urinary passage, but litde or none through the bowels. 

 The regimen and medicine which he supposes saved the 

 life of the third subject, were as follow : 



After preparing a comfortable stable for his steer, he 

 administered a strong drench of black snake-root tea ; 



* This circumstance I did not discover as an attendant on 

 the complaint which afflicted my steer; nor do 1 recollect of his 

 attempting to discharge water. 



