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and proves fatal in from one to six days, or ter- 

 minates in a tedious uncertain recovery. 



SYMPTOMS : It breaks out after exposure 

 in from three days to a week in warm weather, 

 and from 8 to 15 days in cold weather, and is 

 attended with shivering dullness, prostration, 

 burying themselves in the litter, indisposition to 

 motion, hot, dry snout, sunken eyes, wabbling 

 gait, poor appetite, urgent thirst, heat of body 

 103 to 105 dgr. Fh., and the pulse about 103 to 

 105. Accompanied with heat, redness and ten- 

 terness of the skin are found red and black spots, 

 the former disappearing on pressure, while the 

 latter remain, the tongue is heavily coated, pulse 

 small, weak and rapid, breathing quick, and 

 often attended with a hard dry cough, nausea and 

 vomiting, are often accompanying symptoms ; 

 great ado on pressure of the belly, bowels some- 

 times costive throughout, but more generally an 

 exhaustive relax comes on about the third day 

 with very fetid and offensive discharges. Lymph 

 and blood often pass off with discharges of the 

 bowels, and before death the poor animal looses 

 control of hind limbs, often sinking into complete 

 stupor, attended with muscular trembling, twitch- 

 ing and involuntary passages of the bowels. 



CAUSES : Is generally brought on by con- 

 tagion but faults in diet may be concerned in its 

 developement. The contagion is said to be borne 

 half a mile in the wind and is with difficulty 

 eradicated from pens, &c. 



TREATMENT : Should not permissible (or 

 mixed) unless in a free and disinfected atmos- 

 phere. Feed well boiled, barley gruel, or gruel 

 of rye, likewise thoroughly boiled ; but should 

 the foregoing excite or augment the fever, feed 



