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MURRAIN. 



Milk Trembles. — This is a disease seen in the wooded 

 country of the South and South-west, and depends upon 

 cold, moisture and miasma. The disease disappears with 

 improvements and clearing of the land from timber. 



Treatment. Give gentian, ginger, and fenugreek, of each, 

 half an ounce ; mix, and make one dose, which may bf 

 repeated once in the day. 



Moor Evil.— (See Red Water.) 



Mouth Disease. — (See Epizootic Aphtha.) 



Murrain. — This is one of the names given to diseases 

 of cattle, which ought long ago to have been expunged 

 from the books and writings of men v/ho ought, if they do 

 not, know that the word murrain means to die. By classi- 

 cal scholars, orators, and poets, the use of the word murrain 

 may be taken as an indication that they have read Virgil, 

 Plomer and Horace; but when cov/ doctors talk about the 

 murrain, it conveys the reverse idea to that entertained 

 when used by the orator and poet. Cattle plagues and 

 murrain are excellent names, whereby the ignorant pre- 

 tender may gain credit among farmers and others, for a 

 knowledge he never did possess. He may give the name 

 of murrain to any disease or diseases, hovv^ever different the 

 one may be from the other in sign, symptom and seat, 

 providing that the beast die. It v/ill be observed, how- 

 ever, that if the animal should live, murrain can't be its 

 proper name. Murrain, as applied to cattle diseases, 

 conveys no idea of the nature or seat of the disease. In 

 some parts of the world, murrain is applied to epizootic 

 aphtha, a disease affecting the mouth and feet — de lafievre 

 aptheura — and withal, not deadly or fatal. Y/ithout 

 fatality, any intelligent person would naturally and knovv^- 

 ingly think that there can be no murrain, and the absurdity 



