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up and stop in the early part of the period of 

 decline ; the epidermis of the openings through 

 which they passed out peels off in thin scales, 

 and afterwards in scurfs or husks in a word, 

 the economy does not experience those acute 

 disturbances which strike one of the tripods of 

 life that is to say, either the nervous centres, 

 the lungs, or the digestive organs. 



Now, in these curable cases, in which the 

 cure is most generally due to nature's own 

 efforts, but which a systematic treatment 

 might render far more frequent, the conva- 

 lescence is long, and requires great attention 

 and a well-regulated diet, in which the food is 

 carefully measured and divided. Here there 

 must be a rigid superintendence. A laxity in 

 the watchfulness, or too much reliance on the 

 reviving health, have produced sudden re- 

 lapses, and been fatal to many sick cattle, 

 which had been looked upon as thoroughly 

 cured. For it may well be conceived that 

 convalescent animals, after sustaining such 

 violent derangements in their health, and 

 having been brought down to the lowest 

 degree of prostration and marasmus to a re- 

 constitution, we may call it, of the solids and 



