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true, we would rather dispense with, but every thing now 

 depends upon keeping up the strength, which we must endea- 

 vour to accomphsh even at some risk. Should the bowels 

 have continued costive, repeated half pints of linseed oil, 

 with each of which half a drachm of chloroform is blended, 

 and in each of which a scruple of camphor must also be 

 dissolved, should be administered at intervals. 



Every thing now depends upon cleanliness. A dung- 

 heap near the cowhouse ; putrid matter or stagnant water 

 near the building ; a foul drain, or even a rotten thatch, 

 will defeat the very best of medicinal remedies. The farmer 

 is too apt to terminate all his own exertions, when he 

 whom the tiller of land calls a doctor is in attendance ; 

 whereas this is the precise period when he should most 

 bestir himself, as without the proprietor's supervision the 

 veterinary surgeon only leaves directions to find they have 

 been neglected ; and only sends " physic" to discover it has 

 been put upon one side or thrown away. In pleuro-pneu- 

 monia, the owner's inspection, or that of his wife — if he 

 have a kind, open-hearted partner, who will freely of her 

 own accord undertake the nursing — is of every import ; 

 since the veterinary surgeon has often been reproached 

 with the loss of an animal, for the death of which, could 

 facts be ascertained, the farmer would be condemned as 

 the rightful culprit. The attendance upon the animal 

 must now be constant, but should be so given as not to 

 disturb or excite her. Every thing must be done gently ; 

 with feeling for the really distressing situation of the beast, 

 but with the utmost caution and perfect silence. 



The better appearance of the creature ; her altered and 

 even cheerful aspect ; her readiness for exertion, which on 

 narrowly watching her, will, however, demonstrate her 

 greater weakness ; the entire absence of any thing like 

 pulse at the jaw ; the strange smells that are perceptible 

 about the beast ; the cessation of cough, and a bloody, foul 

 exudation from the nostrils, with a partial inclination for 

 food, will bespeak the gradual starting up of the fourth 

 and last stage of the disorder. Solids, probably, would be 

 retained within the rumen, therefore fluids alone are worthy 

 of reliance. Now withdraw the belladonna, and the aco- 

 nite as well as the emetic tartar, and the nitre from the 



