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with turpentine ; to make the animals inhale 

 six times a day vapours seasoned with vinegar; 

 to wrap them over with woollen cloths ; to 

 bleed them once or twice ; to administer to 

 them, when diarrhoea shows itself, a beverage 

 containing wormwood, quinine, and diascor- 

 dium ; to cut open the tumours containing 

 pus or air, etc. 



It is, as is seen, the same treatment as that 

 quoted above ; he guarantees its success, and 

 supports his views by the authority of Van 

 Swieten and Huxan. 



Van Swieten, however, had somewhat modi- 

 fied the treatment, by the predominance which 

 he allowed to acids ; and this course seemed to 

 him to be only reasonable with respect to 

 animals whose sick humours contain an excess 

 of alkali. 



Vicq d'Azyr fixed his attention on the 

 means of prevention, the most effectual of 

 which, in his opinion, was to slaughter every 

 animal which had either sickened, or had been 

 exposed to the influence of the contagion ; 

 and as he insisted that the authorities had no 

 measures to keep in this matter of public 

 interest, he made it a principle that the 



