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To this treatment, in some sort preventive, 

 must be annexed an antimiasmatic beverage, 

 either a permanganate of potash, or a solution 

 of chlorate of potash, or of arsenic acid in 

 powder, mixed with some aromatized beverage, 

 or solution of arseniate of soda. These anti- 

 typhic drinks must be discontinued on those 

 days when the sick cattle are purged. 



It need hardly be said, that during this 

 period of incubation the feeding of the cattle 

 must be strictly attended to, and that the 

 animal must receive unusual hygienic care. 



Second Period, or that of Initiation, 



At this period the constitution and tem- 

 perament of the sick cattle must first of all be 

 deliberately studied, so as to ascertain fully 

 which are lymphatic, which are nervous, and 

 which are sanguine. We must notice the age, 

 the sex, the state of gestation, and make al- 

 lowance for any prior complaints to which any 

 of the sick cattle may have been subject. For 

 if, like certain system -mongers, we reduced the 

 treatment of all tainted cattle to the same 

 mathematical formula of medication, that is, 

 either to bleeding or to purging exclusively, 

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