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CHAPTER IV. 



Treatment and Cure of the Ox-Typhus. 



In now addressing ourselves to the treatment, 

 and, as far as human agency can effect it, to 

 the cure, of this insidious distemper, we cannot 

 conceal from ourselves, that this is the most 

 difficult, the most delicate, and, at the .same 

 time, the most important division of our 

 work ; for it is to this part, above all, that 

 attention will be directed. This portion 

 of our task, therefore, will prove especially 

 arduous ; and nothing can give a better notion 

 of the difficulties we shall have to encounter 

 than the many fruitless attempts which, for 

 several months past, have been made to over- 

 come them by many ardent inquirers, stimu- 

 lated by the best possible intentions. 



This, then, is the moment if we may be 

 allowed the metaphor to take the bull by 

 the horns; and we do so without hesitation. 

 If, like so many others, we are baffled and 

 overcome in this unequal struggle if our 



