or THE ox. 59 



112 inoculated cattle, saved 41 ; and those of 

 Koopman, who, out of 94, cured 45 by this 

 very inoculation. 



He reminds us that the cattle typhus is an 

 abiding disease in Hungary and Russia, where 

 the beasts having bad water to drink, can 

 only be protected by a constant use of marine 

 salt (sel gemme) ; but being deprived of this 

 salt, when they go great distances to be sold, 

 and being exposed to extreme fatigue and 

 privations, the typhus then spreads among 

 them. He likewise tells us that Hungary and 

 Dalmatia, which used to supply the markets of 

 Italy with butcher's meat, were obliged to 

 give up sending any cattle there, the Italians 

 having firmly refused to purchase the same at 

 any price whatever. 



As regards treatment, the advice which 

 Yicq d'Azyr gives to agriculturists, is 

 mostly borrowed from the authors who have 

 written on the great epizootics of 1711, and 

 1745 to 1755. Thus, he advises them to give 

 as drinks in the first stage, water whitened 

 with meal and nitred ; to purge the animals 

 with linseed oil ; even to make scarifications 

 on the skin, and to keep up the suppuration 



