310 CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS OF THE OX. 



whole country depend on the manner in which 

 you shall treat this admirable warning. 



There are in this disease, as in every other, 

 unforeseen varieties and complications, such as 

 those which are brought on by the gestation 

 and abortion of cows, and those proceeding 

 from prior disease ; for these accidents you 

 will provide. Moreover, such a terrible dis- 

 temper can only be treated according to the 

 advice of a professional man. Call him in, then, 

 follow his advice and prescriptions with rigid 

 exactness, and do not attempt to do better 

 than he ; and, above all, arm yourselves against 

 the insidious pretensions of quacks and char- 

 latans, whatever mantle they may put on to 

 hide their ignorance. 



