OF THE OX. 289 



The germs of this virulent distemper have 

 no doubt smitten some cattle which appeared 

 in the best health and conditions, those of tho 

 rich as well as those of the poor; but, just in 

 the same manner as the cholera chiefly fixes 

 itself upon the sickly, the ill-fed, the unclean, 

 upon those who live in crowded dwellings and 

 badly ventilated rooms ; so, too, does the 

 typhus choose its victims among the stalls and 

 stables of those graziers who keep their cows tied 

 up for years to the rack, giving them neither air 

 nor exercise, and feeding them, not on that diet 

 which their health requires, but on those things 

 which add to their milk and increase their 

 flesh. It follows, of course, that the greater 

 number of these cows, more or less disordered 

 by this long course of baleful treatment, and 

 many of which die of consumption, after their 

 deteriorated milk has infused into men the 

 seeds of diseases, must afford an easy prey to 

 the typhus, to receive which they seem almost 

 expressly to have been trained. 



It is highly important then, farmers and 

 graziers, that you should be able to recognise 

 this ox-typhus; in the first place, that you 

 may take the necessary measures to prevent its 



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