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Avii with little appetite. It should be well ascertained whether the 

 fever has quite left the beast, because listlessness and disinclination 

 lo move, and loss of appetite, and siiorht stago-eringr, may res\ilt as 

 much from the continuance of fever as from the debility which it 

 leaves behind. If the muzzle is cool and moist, and the mouth not 

 hot, and the pulse sunk to nearly its natural standard, or rather below 

 it, and weak and low, the followingr drink may be ventured on; but 

 No. 1 must be returned to if there is the slightest appearance oi in- 

 crease of cold or fever. 



RECIPE (No. 3). 



Take erretic tartar, half a drachm ; nitre, two drachms ; powdered sentian root 

 Ji.e drachm ; powdered chamomile flowers, one drachm ; and powdered ginger, half a 

 *achm. Pour upon them a pint of boiling ale, and give the infusion when nearly 

 'Old. 



When the beast begins to recover, he should not be exposed in any 

 ■•leak situation, or to much rough weather. 



In some years this epidemic disease destroys a great many cattle. 

 hi the winter of 1830, and in the spring of 1831, thousands of young 

 ♦rattle perished in every part of the country. Some of them were 

 carefully examined after death, and the membrane lining the wind- 

 pipe was found to be inflamed, and the inflammation extending down 

 to and involving all the small passages leading to the air-ceils of the 

 lungs. 



In a great many instances the windpipe was nearly filled, and the 

 small passages of the lungs were absolutely choked by mj'riads of 

 little worms. These cattle had had their flanks particularly tucked 

 up, and had stood and couched with a violence that threatened every 

 moment to burst some blood-vessel ; and well they migflit congrh thus 

 violently, when the delicate and sensitive lining- of the air-tubes was 

 incessantly irritated by the motion, if not by the bites, of these 

 worms. The origin of the worms no one has satisfactorily ascer- 

 tained. There is no doubt that there are innumerable little esrgs of 

 various i>rimalculae, too small to be seen b}^ the unassisted eye, 

 always floating in the air, and only waiting for some proper situation 

 or nest in order to be nursed into life. The proper nidus or nest of 

 these aniraals is probably the mucus of the air-passages, and they are 

 plentifully hx'ged upon it in the act of respiration. 



I scarcely k^iow what to advise in the treatment of these agrgravated 

 cases. The violent cough is an effort of nature to expel the parasites. 

 Can we assist hor in accomplishino- that expulsion 1 There are cer- 

 tain medicines \^hich afford us much relief when we have difficulty 

 in expertoratin^ b quantity of thick viscid phlegm. After a dose oi 

 two of liquorice or squills we find the cougfh considerably loosened, 

 or, in other words, the phlegm is a grpat deal more fluid, and easily 

 Tot rifl of. The ''am^^ effect, although not to such an extent, is pro- 

 duced in cattle, and a few, at least, of the worms are expeHed. The 

 following prescription may be tried with advantatTe: — 

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