290 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



contagion ; and secondly, that you may apply 

 the treatment which shall have been recom- 

 mended to you. 



You m\ist at all times, but above all when 

 the contagious disease is raging, keep a 

 watchful eye on your cattle. If you notice in 

 their gait, in their looks, about their ears, any 

 unusual signs ; if they seem to you less eager, 

 less active, less vigilant, if they leave any part 

 of their rations when in the stables, or if, when 

 in the fields, they no longer browse with that 

 continual alacrity which sometimes it is diffi- 

 cult to divert them from, be upon your guard, 

 and dread the outbreak of the complaint. If 

 to these changes of minor importance is added 

 an appetite really less acute, if the rumination 

 is less regular, if the animal looks sad and 

 dispirited, if he exhibits an unwonted look of 

 gloom, if his leaden eye continues fixed, 

 astonished, be sure a morbid change is in- 

 wardly at work, and that this cruel distemper 

 is spreading through his frame. 



By-and-bye the animal loses his appetite 

 more and more ; rumination is shorter and less 

 frequent; he holds his head down, his ears 

 sink and fall ; he grinds his teeth. Then as 



