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yellow colour outside, and dark red inside, which I 

 think unfit for human food after the first stage. The 

 disease confined itself to the above shed of forty-eight 

 cows (which are now all gone) till the 20th of August, 

 when it broke out in another shed of thirty-five cows, 

 some ten yards from the former one, and continued its 

 ravages, taking from two to four cows daily, till they 

 are all gone but two, one of which has not been at- 

 tacked ; the other, which was a bad case, is cured, and 

 partly come to her milk again. On the first symptoms 

 I had her separated from the other stock, and did not 

 treat her for two days, when diarrhoea set in ; I then gave 

 her a bottle of brandy and four ounces of ground ginger 

 in three quarts of old ale. She lay in a kind of stupor 

 for twelve hours, when I could see a change in her for 

 the better. I continued to give her daily four quarts 

 of gruel made with old ale and two ounces of ginger. 

 In four days she was sufficiently recovered to eat a 

 little hay, &c., and do without further treatment. In 

 another case the above treatment failed, and the 

 animal died in three days. In other cases I allowed 

 anyone to treat them who thought they had a remedy, 

 both professional men and others. One persevering 

 young veterinary surgeon came up out of Somerset- 

 shire and treated two cases most energetically, but 

 failed in both ; one died in four, and the other in eight 

 days. In other cases tonics, stimulants, blisters, and 

 setons have been tried, but all failed. The whole of 

 the eighty-one cows lost were of the English breed ; 

 we have not as yet had any loss out of the other two 

 sheds, consisting of about half English and half Dutch 

 cows, and standing about forty yards from the infected 



