40 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



The treatment, to which, above all, we invite 

 the reader's attention (more particularly that 

 of medical men), necessarily varied accord- 

 ing to the period of the disease. It was some- 

 times preservative, sometimes curative, as the 

 case might be. 



The Preventive Treatment. The farmers and 

 cattle-breeders, whose herds were still exempt 

 from the contagion, mindful of the advice 

 which they received through the public press, 

 took very particular care of their cattle during 

 this season of epizootia: they rubbed them 

 over with a brush, and washed them at least 

 once a day; they sheltered them from the 

 inclemency of wind and rain ; they took their 

 milch cows, which until then they had kept 

 shut up in unhealthy cow-houses, into the open 

 air of the fields ; they washed and fumigated 

 the stables ; they examined the quality of the 

 fodder and of the other articles of food ; they 

 added marine salt to their drinking water, or 

 poured salt water over their forage ; and above 

 all, they took care that no foreign animal com- 

 mingled with their flocks and herds. 



Some physicians, on their side conscious of 

 the duty which devolves upon them in such 



