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Case of Croup in a Calf, hij Richard Peters j Esquire. 



Read, June 9, 1812. 

 Belmont, May 24, 1812. 



S'lTy 



I was pleased to observe a late request of the so- 

 ciety, to be furnished with facts relative to diseases of 

 our domestic animals. You know that my opinion has 

 long been, that the brute creation are afflicted with dis- 

 eases exactly similar to those to which the human race 

 are subject. To contribute my mite towards the ob- 

 ject of the society, in thus calling for information, I 

 mention the following facts. 



A few weeks ago, I had a fine, healthy, playful, Calf, 

 suddenly attacked in a manner I had never before ob- 

 served. I did not notice its extraordinary symptoms, 

 early enough to treat the disease in a mode likely to 

 conquer it. Nor did I conceive soon enough, the na- 

 ture of its malady. But having some knowledge of the 

 Croup in children, I was struck, at too late a stage of 

 the disease, with the exact resemblance of the disor- 

 der, which had fatally fixed itself in the animal. Its 

 mode of breathing could not be distinguished from 

 that of a child, under similar circumstances. As soon 

 as I was convinced of the nature of the disease, I had 

 the calf copiously bled ; and directed castor oil to be 

 thrown down the throat, through the neck of a bottle ; 

 after opening the passage of the wind pipe with a flex- 

 ible twig, to which a sponge dipt in sweet oil was at- 

 tached. It was relieved, surprisingly, for two days ; 



