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preferred cold drinks, and that they were par- 

 ticularly fond of acidulated whey. 



In the second period of the distemper, the 

 same drinks were continued, adding thereto 

 some theriac or Jesuit's bark, in order to lessen 

 the frequency of the diarrhoetic evacuations. 

 They also provoked the depurating secretions 

 from the mouth, nose, and eyes, by repeated 

 washings ; and as those animals, in which the 

 running was most easy and copious, seemed to 

 be less seriously affected with the disease, they 

 strove to increase that which flowed from the 

 glands of the mouth by fixing a gag in the 

 jaws, and keeping it there for several hours. 

 This measure seemed so efficacious that a 

 decree from the Parlement de Eouen, issued 

 on the 13th of March, 1745, ordered the 

 application of a gag, or bit, for three hours 

 every day, to the cattle under treatment. 



In the third period, they sought to overcome 

 the wasting of strength in the system by 

 means of tonic and nutritious drinks, de- 

 coctions of centaur^, Jesuit's bark, juniper 

 berries, &c. They likewise administered 

 emollient clysters if the evacuations were 

 bloody. 



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