92 On the Bloody Murrain, 



The first symptom of the disease generally noticed is, 

 an entire loss of appetite on the part of the animal, attend- 

 ed with considerable fever ; this is followed by slight 

 discharges of blood whenever an effort is made to stale. 

 In this state, great restlessness and weariness is discover- 

 ed ; in a later stage there is no discharge whatever from 

 the bowels, and until the means of relief were discover- 

 ed, inevitable death soon ensued. 



The first effort I ever made to arrest the progress of 

 this dreadful scourge, which annually deprived us of a 

 considerable portion of our cattle, was by blood-letting ; 

 a remedy which often proved beneficial, but was fre- 

 quently ineffectual. 



Mr. Jones of Glocester, advised me to use a drench of 

 the infusion, of cedar berries, and the remed} was adopted 

 from a full conviction that it was infinitely better than any 

 other which I had previously tried. 



The drench given was generally about a quart of the 

 infusion contained in a bottle, in which was probably half 

 a pint of the berries. In nearly every case the effect was 

 almost instantaneous ; a considerable discharge from the 

 bladder and bowels followed, and in five or ten minutes 

 time a disposition to eat was shew n on the part of the 

 animal. I verily believe, sir, that in nineteen cases out 

 of twenty, where this remedy, has been fairly tried, a 

 perfect cure has been effected : and where it has failed, I 

 have imputed it to improper management, to violence to 

 the animal in giving the drench, to an improper prepara- 

 tion of the drench, or the disea>^e having continued until 

 relief was impossible. In many cases the drench was 

 repeated four or five times, as it was believed that any 

 effect it might produce would be beneficial. 



In regard to this matter, however effectual the remedy 

 might be when applied, yet there was another considera- 

 tion of much importance which rendered it less valuable 



