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The duration of the disease, when it passed 

 through all its phases up to the death of the 

 affected animal, consisting of from ten to 

 twelve days, they usually ascribed to each of 

 these periods or stages an average continuance 

 of three or four days. 



1st Period. After a few days of latent in- 

 cubation, which the observer could not suspect, 

 the sick animal betrayed signs of the morbid 

 state which was about to declare itself, by his 

 careless feeding, by drooping his head, and by 

 exhibiting the deepest dejection of spirits in 

 his attitude and look. Eumination, already 

 imperfect, soon ceased altogether, the appetite 

 failed, the horns, ears, and hoofs were cold, 

 the hair grew stiff, the tongue and mucus 

 looked white ; the eyes were tearful and fixed, 

 the hearing obtuse, whilst, in the cows, the 

 supply of milk diminished. In cases of 

 unusual gravity, transient shiverings testified 

 to a serious disturbance in all the animal 

 functions. These shiverings were followed by 

 a violent fever, the blood became inflamed, the 

 breath hot, the respiration hurried and some- 

 times attended with slight coughing ; when, if 

 too violent a repercussion was transmitted to 



