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the animals to lose their calf-flesh, but feeding them steadily on. 

 The disease is regarded by some as a species of anthrax, and is 

 called symptomatic anthrax ; but there is a decided post-mortem 

 difference present, in so much that the blood of an animal dead 

 of anthrax proper will not coagulate, while that of an animal dead 

 of quarter-ill will. I have known of numerous affected animals 

 (young overfed bulls in particular) being slaughtered, and the 

 damaged portion cut off and destroyed, while the remainder of the 

 carcass was sold as food for human consumption. Although I 

 never heard of any bad result following, yet I do not subscribe to 

 the system, for it is a dangerous proceeding, and all animals so 

 affected should be either scheduled or brought under the notice ot 

 the authorities. 



460. The symptoms of black-quarter or quarter-ill to be first 

 noticed are that the animal seems very languid, breathes quickly, 

 and hangs its head, while the white of the eye has a peculiar pale, 

 cold, steely hue. Lameness may also be present in one of the limbs. 

 On examining 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 follow- 

 ing prescription — namely, 1 ounce of hyposulphite of soda and 1 ounce 

 of charcoal, given every six or eight hours in water, and 10 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. 



461. Numerous preventive measures have been suggested and tried 

 for this affliction, such as tablespoonful doses of turpentine in 1 pint 

 of linseed oil twice a week, or |-ounce doses of saltpetre in 1 pint 

 of water, at like intervals, etc. ; 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 

 have never yet seen one animal which had been setoned become 



