the body, the confirming symptom will be a puffy swelling, which, 

 when the hand is passed over it, gives a crackling sound and feeling. 

 All sorts of remedies have been tried, but I never knew a case of a 

 young animal recovering when once attacked. Treatment : In adult 

 cases, I have had most success with the following prescription, namely, 

 one ounce of hyposulphite of soda and one ounce of charcoal, given 

 every six or eight hours, in water ; and lo to 15 ounces of linseed oil 

 given every other day. The temperature in all the cases ranged from 

 104° to 106° for seven to ten days ; little or no food was taken, while 

 the affected parts made very slow recoveries. 



458. Numerous preventive measures have been suggested and tried 

 for this affliction, such as tablespoonful doses of turpentine in half a pint 

 of linseed oil, twice a week ; or \ ounce doses of saltpetre, in one pint 

 of water, at like intervals, &c. ; but the best preventive I have found, is 

 to insert a seton — a piece of white linen tape smeared over with a little 

 blister ointment — on one side of the dewlap, in September or October. 

 I have treated some hundreds in this manner, and yet have never seen 

 one animal which had been setoned become affected with black 

 quarter. A new preventive, now recommended, is inoculating the 

 young animals with a watery fluid prepared from the diseased parts of 

 an affected beast. This is a very delicate operation — the instrument 

 must be scrupulously clean, and the fluid must be injected direct into 

 the blood, through the walls of the jugular vein, which has to be 

 dissected out for this purpose, for were a little of the fluid to get into 

 the tissues beneath the skin, it would be the means of killing the 

 animal. This, then, is a very risky, as well as a tedious operation, 

 and I fail to see how it can be an improvement on the old seton, with 

 the facts before named wathin my own experience of 40 years. The 

 best plan, however, is to keep the animals indoors until they are 

 twelve months old, giving them good lodgings, dry beds, good drainage, 

 and nutritious food, such as linseed cake, crushed oats and bran, with a 

 little salt. Were this treatment followed out, very little, if any, black 

 quarter would be seen. 



459. Rinderpest, or Cattle Plague, is an imported disease of an 



