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Department of Agriculture in 1871, joins in absolute con- 

 demnation of purgatives and bleeding. If the case is seen 

 and attended to early in the disease, he believes its progress 

 may be checked by active internal astringents. He places 

 the whole herd in which the malady has appeared on regu- 

 lar daily doses of sulphate of iron, allowing about half a 

 drachm to a drachm to a bullock, mixed with an equal 

 amount of bruised coriander seeds, given in some bran, 

 -the better to disguise the iron. Prof. Gamgee has uniformly 

 found its use followed by a mitigation of the cough and a 

 disappearance of the disease in the herd. 



When the case has progressed to the second stage of the 

 malady, he believes that light but nutritious food, copious 

 warm water injections, and the use of a stimulant, such as 

 half an ounce of carbonate of ammonia in a quart of lin- 

 seed tea, two or three times a day, the most hopeful plan. 



But when the lung is already filled and solidified by the 

 progress of the inflammation, the advice of this author is to 

 leave the case to nature. If both lungs are involved, there 

 is substantially no hope ; but if only one is implicated, re- 

 covery occasionally takes place. 



Blisters, setons, rowels and cauterization, are all out of 

 place in the acute stage, though they may be apj)lied after 

 the fever has abated in some instances. For the cough and 

 debility following the disease, a tonic used by Prof. Gam- 

 gee is : 



No. 305. Oxide of manganese, 



Iron filings, each ^ oz. 



Tincture of gentian, 1\ oz. 



Water, 1 pint. 



To be given daily in gruel. 



Or the sulphate of iron, as mentioned above. 



The carboliG acid treatment has been unquestionably oi 

 considerable success in various instances. It may be carried 

 out as follows : — 



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