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the disease proceeds, these symptoms aggravate, and 

 without prompt and proper care, terminate fatally. 



Cure. — House the animal by itself, and bleed it co- 

 piously ; in general, three bleedings are requisite, one 

 each day. Set a seton in the dewlap, and keep it 

 running some time. Give thra purging drink No. 29, 

 and repeat it occasionally. Keep the beast clean, by 

 rubbing, and by being well littered, and give it scald- 

 ed bran, or bruised malt, with a little ground corn. — 

 On the turn of the disorder, if the animal be low and 

 debilitated, the restorative drink No. 15, will be very 

 useful. 



Ajter trealmenty or eradication of the disease. — On 

 the recovery of the animal, the cow house, or place 

 in which it was sheltered, should be made comfortable 

 and very clean, but properly ventilated; all the litter 

 must be burned ; and if the disease was malignant, it 

 will be necessary to fumigate the house and every 

 thing in it, with the following mixture : 



Fumigating Mixture. — Common salt, 2 pounds ; oil of vitriol, 1 

 pound. Place the salt into an earthen vessel, in the middle of the 

 cow-house, and pour the acid gradually on it, stir it well about with 

 a long stick, and immediately leave the place, and close the door. 



This should be done at least twice. 



CATARRH, FELLON, COLD, EPIDEMIC. FE- 

 VER, INFLUENZA, OR DISTEMPER. 



All these are the name of one distemper, and that a 

 cold, which prevails most in spring, when wet and cold 

 weather prevails. It is also caused by sudden changes 

 from heat to cold ; drinking freely of cold water, when 

 over heated. Sometimes it comes on without any per- 

 ceptible cause, and prevails in so great and so malig- 

 nant a degree, as to appear contagious. 



Symptoms. — The beast appears dull and heavy, with 

 weeping ayes ; the nose is dry; the coat looks staring, 

 the hair seeming to stand the wrong way on the animal's 

 back ; loss of appetite ; and if a milch cow, her milk 

 is much lessened in quality, or she is said to trick of her 

 milk. If the hand be pressed upon the chine, or any 

 part of the back, the animal mostly gives way; it is 

 then called the chine fellon — at other times, the joints 

 are raor© particularly affected, it \» then termed the joint 



