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strength is not on a level with our desires 

 we trust we shall be pardoned. 



Several paths leading to the same end may 

 be followed in this exposition of the treatment 

 of ox-typhus. After mature reflection, we 

 shall adopt the one, which will allow us to 

 take the disease at its birth, ab ovo; to study 

 it in all its phases, in its first and second 

 causes, and then in the successive periods of 

 its development. 



In this manner, we shall be able to give an 

 account of each fact of real importance men- 

 tioned in the foregoing pages, and to com- 

 prise within the treatment whatever is con- 

 nected either directly or indirectly with the 

 disease. 



Thus we will relate in so many separate 

 articles, 



1st. The means and measures to be em- 

 ployed to meet and resist the first local causes 

 which may generate the typhus, then the 

 secondary causes which serve to propagate it. 



2nd. The means of preventing the spread 

 of the disease to animals still in good health. 



3rd. The means of treating it at its different 



