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with tepid water. In the mean time let the patient have a few 

 doses of the following : — 



Powdered Mandrake, 2 drachms. 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre, 4 drachms. 



Tincture of Matico, .1 drachm. 



Acetated Water of Ammonia,* 2 ounces. 



« Water, 1 ounces. 



Mix, and drench the animal from a bottle, and repeat the 

 same on the two succeeding days, if necessary. So soon as the 

 animal improves, stop the medicine and allow a generous diet.. 



A few years ago a vesicular epizootic broke out among cat- 

 tle and milch cows at Stratford-on-Avon. The symptoms are 

 thus described by J. Tombs, V. S. : — 



" The symptoms were : increased pulsation, copious discharge 

 of saliva from the mouth, respiration disturbed. These symp- 

 toms continued for two or three days, when a tremendous 

 inflammation of the integuments and cellular tissues set in, 

 around the coronets at the heels, and between the hoofs, causing 

 exceeding lameness and excruciating pa4n.- The swelling 

 quickly extended to the fetlocks. The poor beasts lay down 

 the greater portion of their time, — panted and perspired pro- 

 fusely, with occasional deep groaning. At this stage of the 

 disease the mouth improved. When made to get up, they 

 could hardly walk, and soon lay down again. The beating of 

 the heart could be distinctly heard several yards off. In some, 

 all four feet were affected ; in others, the fore feet ; others, the 

 hind feet, and in some one fore foot. Suppuration took place 

 in the integumentary and cellular membranes, five or six days 

 subsequently to the original attack, which process afforded great 

 relief. In the interim they became emaciated and lost their 

 milk. In a day or two after, extensive sloughing supervened 

 of the integuments of the coronets and heels, and between the 

 hoofs, leaving the pedal and coronary bones bare, with deep 

 sinuses. The putrid parts, while sloughing, emitted an unbear- 

 able stench. Granulations of new flesh soon formed, which 



* This is a cooling febrifuge, and is known to physicians as " liquor 

 ammonia acetatis." 



