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the propagation of so formidable a malady. 

 Be careful to take out the litter every day, to 

 wash the floor and cleanse it of the droppings, 

 to ventilate the place thoroughly, to fumigate 

 it with burnt sulphur or aromatic plants, such 

 as juniper berries, sage, rosemary, salted with 

 nitrate of potash and arsenic acid ; in order to 

 promote the combustion and give effect to its 

 disinfections properties. At night, camphor 

 or tar, or naphthaline, or creosote, or even 

 iodine, may be left in the stable to diffuse their 

 vapours ; all these measures are very effectual 

 in modifying the air. 



Let us now see what must be done with 

 respect to the sick animals themselves. 



The typhus, as we have said, when once it 

 is developed in an ox or cow, usually pursues its 

 fatal course until the last period of its cure ; 

 generally death alone can arrest its march. Be- 

 sides, the disorders which this disease produces 

 in the various functions of the body are not the 

 same at the different stages of its duration. 

 Thus, for instance, the fever produces great ex- 

 citement in the beginning, but later it pro- 

 duces exhaustion. Without being a physician, a 

 man can understand that the treatment to be 



