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Such are the recommendations which Layard 

 has prescribed for those who have to practise 

 inoculation as a preventive treatment ; it would 

 be difficult to offer an example of greater 

 prudence or precision. 



A certain number of oxen were, by means 

 of this inoculation, protected against the 

 attack of the cattle disease; and this mode 

 of treatment was, as we shall afterwards ex- 

 plain, adopted in Eussia. Unfortunately, this 

 rational and preventive treatment was dis- 

 covered only at the end of the epizootia, when 

 already upwards of six millions of horned cattle 

 had fallen a sacrifice to the contagious 

 fever. 



Curative Means. When the first course of 

 the disease had left no doubt of the attack, 

 the sick animal was subjected to an appropriate 

 diet, and restricted to liquids either as medi- 

 cinal decoctions, or as alimentary beverages. 

 The decoctions consisted of whey mixed 

 with a little vinegar, and nitred hay. The 

 broths, or alimentary*beverages, consisted of a 

 decoction of bread, and of water mixed with 

 bran and meal, whether of barley, oats, or 

 wheat. 



