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of tow, dipped in the matter of a boil full ripe, 

 opened in the back of a young calf recovering 

 from the distemper. It may not be amiss to 

 stitch up the wound, to keep the tow in, and 

 let it remain forty-eight hours. Then the 

 stitches are to be cut, the tow taken out, and 

 the wound dressed with yellow basilicum oint- 

 ment, or one made with turpentine and yolk 

 of egg, spread on pledgets of tow. These 

 dressings are to be continued during the whole 

 illness, and till after the recovery of the beast, 

 to promote the discharge ; and then the wound 

 may be healed with the cerate of lapis cala- 

 minaris, or any other. 



" On the third day after inoculation, the 

 discolouring of the wound, whose lips appear 

 grey and swollen, will be a sign that the 

 inoculation has succeeded ; but the beasts, as 

 Professor Swenke informs us, did not fall ill 

 till the sixth day, which answers exactly to 

 the observations daily made in the inoculating 

 of children. Yet ''he Professor adds that on 

 the third day a costiveness came on, which 

 was removed by giving each calf three ounces 

 of Epsom salts. 



" No sooner do the symptoms of heaviness 



