174 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



easily mistaken. However, to conform our- 

 selves to received custom, I will say some 

 words about the principal symptoms of some 

 distempers affecting the ox, between which and 

 typhus unprofessional persons might be em- 

 barrassed, and hesitate to distinguish them. 

 "We will transfer, however, those particulars 

 pertaining to the diagnosis to the part written 

 for the special use of agriculturists, farmers, 

 and graziers, in order that they may readily 

 find whatever it may be necessary for them to 

 know when they chance to have any sick and 

 tainted cattle to treat and cure. 



We have likewise a few words to say on the 

 subject of the prognosis of the disease, as 

 regards its propagation and its time of lasting. 

 Finally, we will unfold a question of very real 

 importance in hygiene we mean the use and 

 consumption of the flesh of animals as food, 

 and the danger which may accrue to man and 

 other animals from contact with their dead 

 bodies, or fragments of the same. 



The diseases of the ox, which we are ac- 

 customed to consider as distinguished from 

 typhus, are the contagious peripneumonia, the 



