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applied to these different states ought not to 

 be the same. We must, moreover, observe 

 that the typhus is of all known distempers 

 the most difficult to treat. It requires in the 

 doctor a degree of skill, of practical experience, 

 vigilance, decision, and sureness of hand which 

 no man can be expected to possess at the first 

 outbreak of the epizootia. 



On the other hand, the constitution of 

 the ox, so easily shaken, undergoes in two 

 weeks all the commotion which a man labour- 

 ing under typhoid fever would be subject to in 

 a month. The phenomena succeed each other 

 with terrific swiftness, leaving scarcely time 

 for us to act, or for the medicines to operate. 

 Do not, therefore, marvel at the great mor- 

 tality among your cattle, and at my repeated 

 recommendations of the preventive treatment 

 by means of inoculation. 



At the outbreak, you must reduce the 

 violence of the fever, prevent the derange- 

 ments in connexion with the nervous centres, 

 assuage the thirst, empty the . stomachs and 

 intestines, which will be the principal seat of 

 the complaint, and sometimes let blood. 



But how are you to obtain these results ? 



