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suppressed. The heat of the horns and lower 

 extremities is retained. The peripneumonia, 

 in a word, runs its course more regularly, and 

 carries off the animal about the fourth week. 

 Thus it will be seen that the two distempers 

 widely differ in their symptoms. 



Every beast which dies of the contagious 

 typhus, bears on its digestive organs the traces 

 of the malady, more or less strongly marked. 

 The third and fourth stomachs and the intes- 

 tines exhibit red or livid patches, and at other 

 times ulcerations. 



The cattle plague is by far the most formid- 

 able malady which can affect animals. When 

 left to itself, or treated without discernment, 

 it carries off ninety cattle out of a hundred. 

 In prior visitations, especially that of 1750, 

 when six millions of horned beasts were swept 

 off in Europe, England lost from three to four 

 hundred thousand ; and we may suppose that 

 the number of cattle which have perished since 

 last June exceeds sixty thousand. 



The treatment is very difficult, owing to the 

 contagious character of the disease, and it has 

 given rise to much discussion. In some coun- 

 tries, the governments, considering the dis- 



