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by clysters, or the most moderate purges, but a scower- 

 ing is the most usual symptom. The sick-house must 

 be sufficiently airy, yet well defended from wet and 

 cold. Acid fumigations will purify the atmosphere of 

 the house, and probably the fumes • being inhaled by 

 the beasts will have a favorable effect." 



The emphysema^ windy abscess, or puffing up of 

 the hide, filled with a thin putrid matter, and foul air, 

 which nature furnishes in the last sta|||, as a means 

 of throwing off the disease, must be opened at full 

 length, wherever situated, and the matter discharged. 

 The cavity to be filled with pledgets of tow, dipped in 

 tincture of myrrh, or of an ointment composed of 

 powdered turpentine and yolk of eggs. Poultices of 

 oatmeal, stale beer, &c., may be necessary to bring 

 the ulcers to a proper digestion. Nitre has, of late, 

 been successfully used in gangrenous ulcers, the cavi- 

 ties being filled with it. The approach of mortifica- 

 tion is indicated by the dark and flabby appearance of 

 the inside of the mouth, coldness, insensibility, black- 

 ness and an ill scent of the dung, sanious and foul 

 discharge from the mouth and nose, and dullness of 

 the eyes. On the return of health, mild, cleansing 

 purges will be necessary, but the danger of mortification 

 must be fairly passed. The recovered beast must not 

 be suddenly exposed to the air, but only turned out a 

 few hours in the middle of the day, particularly 

 throughout winter. Sudden exposure has subjected 

 many convalescents to a vertigo of giddiness, and con- 

 sumption. 



M. Sauvages, the celebrated professor of medicine 

 at Montpelier, was an accurate observer of this disor- 

 der, when it raged with great violence in many parts 

 of Europe. He calculated that of twenty who were 

 attacked by it nineteen died ; that no certain remedy 



