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" On the third day after inoculation, the discolouring 

 of the wound, whose lips appear grey and swollen, will be 

 a sign that the inoculation has succeeded ; but the beasts, 

 as Professor Swenke informs us, did not fall ill till the 

 sixth day, which answers exactly to the observations 

 daily made in the inoculating of children. Yet the Pro- 

 fessor adds that on the third day a costiveness came on, 

 which was removed by giving each calf three ounces of 

 Epsom salts. 



" No sooner do the symptoms of heaviness and stupidity 

 appear than the beasts must have a light covering thrown 

 over them, and at night fastened loosely. They must be 

 rubbed morning and evening, and curried, till the boils 

 begin to rise ; warm hay -water and vinegar-whey must 

 be given plentifully. Should the beasts require more nou- 

 rishment, dry meat, such as hay, with a little bran, may 

 be offered. I should be very cautious in giving milk- 

 pottage, even after the boils and pimples had all come 

 out, for fear of bringing on a scouring. However, this 

 caution is proper, that whenever milk-pottage be given 

 the vinegar- whey is to be omitted for obvious reasons. 

 In cases of accident, the same attention is to be observed 

 in the disease by inoculation as in the natural way, and 

 the medicines recommended are the same I would use; 

 but by inoculation there seldom is a call for any, so fa- 

 vourably does the distemper proceed through its several 

 stages. 



" The crisis being over, it will be proper to purge the 

 cattle, to air them by degrees, and to have the same re- 

 gard in the management of them as is laid down in the 

 chapter on the method of cure," 



The typliic virus is so highly infectious and 

 poisonous that the first animals inoculated 



