TEEATMENT. 8T 



2. The Emulsive or Hyper cemic Stage in which the mucous 

 membrane is softened (more so in all probability by its own 

 ejections lying in the concave folds of the intestine, &c.) ; 

 pours forth mucin in thin form, and is sometimes in parts 

 completely degenerated, losing its hold on the muscular coat. 

 (See p. 34, &c.) 



3. The Exudative Stage, where the separation of lymph 

 proceeds, and croupous casts or diphtheritic deposits are 

 formed or poured out (like polypus). (See pp. 30, 31, 37, 

 &c., and plates VI, figs. 1 and 2, VIII, figs. 3 and 4.) 



4. The Supinirative Stage, when the follicular growth takes 

 on a pyoid form, and granulations are attended with purulent 

 destruction. (See pp. 34-37.) 



It is only necessary to add that it is highly prpbable, giv- 

 ing due weight and place to the evidence adduced by different 

 observers, in various climes, and in successive outbreaks, 

 touching the inoculative as w^ell as natural forms of the Pest, 

 that the largest number of cases would be found occurring and 

 terminating either favorably or fatally in the first stage ; and 

 that the residue would be ratably proportioned among the 

 other stages, in a ratio, declining with the advanced complica- 

 tions which they respectively portray. 



III. Treatment. 



The treatment of a distemper so insidious in its attack, 

 subtle and masked in its incubative stage, and if left uncheck- 

 ed, so fearfully fatal in its development, demands a method 

 that shall be prompt and resolute, and based upon the 

 calmest conclusions of science. All empirical mode's should 

 meet with a sturdy rejection. Blood-letting, and the vulgar 

 nostrums of farriery, should be discarded. The veterinary 

 who has not thoroughly grasped by careful study the scope 

 and action of this zymotic, should be denied a consultation 

 or a fee. It would be better to trust to nursing and to nature 

 than to him. For his professional blunders might, by the 

 myriads of germs of pestilence created and diffused under 

 his unskilful eye, add to the dumb creature his bungling 



