136 KINDERPEST. 



being in a state of sexual excitement, and none over- 

 heated by driving, &c.) rises to 102«» Fahr.; or — 



b. If no such instrument can be readily had or reliably 

 used ; observe the appearances of the inner mouth (see 

 p. 74). If to the eye or by the aid of a magnifying 

 glass there appear small round nodules (knobs) no 

 larger than a millet seed, red at the point or head, or 

 some of them broken and discharging a yellowish or 

 yellowish-grey matter, and the thin membrane which 

 covered the swelling and those adjoining peeled or 

 rolling off:* 



All animals exhibiting these signs are at once to be put 

 under treatment as in Mules II, <jbc. 



Rule IL — a. Let all such animals be separated at once from the 

 herd, and placed in an out-building which is to be 

 used as a hospital — in suitable stalls or boxes — from 

 which all hay, grass, straw, litter, loose dirt, cobwebs, 

 &c., are to be removed. Sawdust, tan bark, or dry 

 sand is to be their bed. 



b. Dissolve 2 oz. of Sulphite (not sulphate, which is 

 Glauber's Salts) of Soda, or 1 oz. of the Hi-sulphitej 

 in 12 quarts of pure spring or clear rain water. 



(If the treatment of the case has been long deferred, 

 or the outbreak be deemed an alarming one, double the 

 quantity of the salt may be employed, not otherwise). 

 Administer 1 pint of this solution every hour (or half 

 hour), after Gamgee's plan.f A tin twisted cup in 

 the shape of a horn, with its mouth well rounded off, 

 is to be employed to the exclusion of glass bottles, 

 " The operator should go up to the right side of the 

 animal, pass his hand over the face into the angle of 

 the mouth in the left side. The head is bent round, 

 not elevated, except to a slight extent ; , . . . the per- 

 son giving the draught to plant his feet well on the 



* Those who apply the thermomoter in time will satk thb wholx fbbiod or iNCUBXTioir, or at 

 least^w days of burrowing of the peat-gorms through the membranous tlasues, and of their fer- 

 ment In the fluids of the body. Those who watch the first signs In the mouth may save firom tu)0 

 io four days. Those who are so indolent or inobservant, as to wait until they find the disease iu 

 full blow, should " go farther and fare worse." Let them hunt up other indications wtiich may 

 eerve to alarm them. We have no patience for such a task. 



t Cattle riague, p. 98. 



